Most folks on the SGL Forum are butchering their cameras to (purposely!) break the green LED's inside then gluing a piece of pipe to the cam so that it can be inserted into the eyepiece of the scope. I'm going the less destructive route first. For a change. I'm keeping it intact and using some blu-tac to put a piece of pipe around the cam. I'm also keeping the adjustable lens in it. Basically if, after a while, I can't get anything good out of it then I'll butcher it to hell. :)
Jupiter looked awesome tonight. The bands of colour were just visible, but the four moons stood out really well! Hopefully a couple of Xbox Cam videos will produce some sort of image I can post.
One image I can post if of a star cluster I found by accident. Pleiades!
Was scanning the sky after looking at Jupiter and came across a big group of stars. Took a while to get my head around their placement (remember: everything in the scope is flipped horizontally and vertically!) but using Kstars (on my old laptop) I managed to place the stars as Pleiades (NGC 1432). The photo was taken using my digital camera held to the 25mm eyepiece with a high ISO (800, I think).
Anyway, time to process those videos of Jupiter...
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