It was nice to report a real breakthrough.
My experiments with a moon filter with Jupiter led me to try it with a webcam
and Barlow lens. I had thought about some constellation or Pleaides shots but
Jupiter was the only real target. Visually, at low power, it was quite clear
and the moons were very “strung out”, too far to get them in the webcam field
of view. I had to settle for a shot with the 2 moons to the east.
I managed 4 decent imaging runs with the
webcam and, although I’ve certainly seen better, the result was a huge
improvement on previous efforts with the compact digital camera and webcam. It
was very tricky hand-guiding a webcam at F/30 but I found the results well
worth it.
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