This time I setup to try my hand at a webcam photo things turned out much better. It helps that Mars was not jumping about the frame like a blob of jello. The first time I setup last week the equipment was running great as I figured out how to use the software, but I didn't even think about processing what little material I did save to disk. I did store a few sequences of Mars and the Moon, as a great example of bad seeing! The scintillation of Vega also makes great video. Has anyone considered analysing the optics of the telescope by using a webcam at high power and stacking a stellar image to view the airy disk and diffraction rings? Last night the seeing was OK, but not great, maybe a 6 with a bit of 7. So I shot sequences of 600 frames at 1/1000 of a second hoping to freeze what movement there was. The resulting image is 500 frames stacked. I don't think it is too bad for my first real attempt at this sort of imaging. I still need a couple things, a barlow, and maybe an IR filter, but even without it did work... http://www.whitethornhouse.com/dropbox/Mars200309072335.jpg I can't wait for Jupiter and Saturn! Andrew -- Andrew Cooper Tucson, AZ mailto:acooper@xxxxxxxxx http://www.whitethornhouse.com -- See message header for info on list archives or unsubscribing, and please send personal replies to the author, not the list.