Somehow, I got a burst of enthusiasm today and decided to repair my EQ2 tripod this evening.

After an hour and drilling and tapping, I managed to get it balanced.

As it happened the clouds also cleared.

I quickly setup the laptop and had another shot at using a Webcam.

I managed to get about 30secs of footage before the clouds rolled in, so I didn't get a chance to practice focusing with the webcam.

After downloading and using Virtual dub to splice the video and remove the rubbish frames of the video, and putting the 150 or so frames into registax, I managed to create the image attached.

I think its the highest power image I've ever managed to get of the moon. All in all, I'm back on a high again. I seem to have made the Tripod a bit more stirdy as well with the fixings I made and have managed to track the moon tonight, which I've never managed to do before.

A very short, but worth while observing session in the end before the clouds rolled in.