I was determined to get out last night.

I sat at my PC checking out my VX1000 cheapo webcam and decided to have a play.

I bit of fiddling got the case apart and the lens seen followed. The cam inself fist to the focal tube almost perfectly, just had to wait for night.

The clouds moved swiftly in causing me huge alignment headaches. after a while i managed to get clear views of Capella and Acturus so we were go. I wanted the alignment for tracking (which i don't think works if not aligned). I had real problems until the cloud cleared to a beautifully clear night.

The webcam was impressive and, considering it blatantly ISNT of the toucam etc standard caused me some mind wrangling (I recently decided that if i couldnt do it in my budget i wouldn't do it....looking is fun enough in itself.)

As a technical study it was interesting and let me play with registax as well.

I also got some moon footage but as it is near full really struggled to make out any details under the general wash of light.

Here is Saturn anyway

as the can really isn't up to it it has been put back where it belongs. interesting experiment nonetheless.

I then went onto some Lunar 100 searching with little success.

As i was getting cold by then and my back was becoming rather unhappy i had one last look around and another gaze at the moon, nearly filling my pants when a jest flew right across the moon!

Packed up and got warm using the trusty bed based wife method.