in August's AS&T there is a shot of the moon and jupiter, but no detail how he did it. Also my 40mm will be almost too much magnification to fit everything according to Starry night???
Do what the helpful crowd in here suggested I do with one of my Joop attempts of getting the Jovian Moons to show up.
Take a shot of the whole lot for Moon capture. Then take a longer one for Pleiades to show up. Then mask out the Moon in the Longer exposure and stack them!
For visual I can't imagine too much problem with 40mm, the moon just fills my 26mm EP and the FL of the LX is 2000mm =76x mag, whereas yours is 1250mm and you have a 40mm EP = 31x mag, but of course you have to allow for the (apparent) magnification of the Toucam if you're imaging. I seem to remember you posted that it was equivalent to a 6mm EP that would make the mag 208x. Maybe you could try afocal instead of prime focus...
thanks phil, i now have an afocal setup to use with any of my 1.25" eyepieces, so i will give it a go tonight for the moon and also fingers crossed for pleades tomorrow.
also i would love to try to us my toucam thru your scope next friday in modded mode for longer exposures. hope fully you can make it and the weather is favourable.
i would love to try lagoon or anything high in the sky that night. i am really wanting to try thr toucam with a scope that tracks to get a good feel for what it can do.
