could their be a proble with your colamination what kind of scope do you have? also try takeing the gain and diffrent settings down in the prefences mabey put a moon filter on it aswell i know when i was doing day time shots with it i had to take brightness down and gain down aswell set a shorter exposure time on brigher objects too i belive . im new to this aswell and i had to play alot with diffrent setting at get nice pics during the day and but like you said they were wery nice and crisp. i could count the plys in the plywood on the neibours chicken koop roof about 200 feet away so i was sold on that alone and i cant wait to se what kind of pick i get out of a bigger telescope i was useing my 60mmx700mm refractor i noticed also sometimes when i switched inbetween the rbg 1090x980 pixels and other video formats sometime i would select a size and it would go black and tell me no live video and then i would just select the same channel again and it would then get video. does this hapen to you aswell and do you know or anyone know if their is a program i gan use with my macbook pro my old pc dont have battery life to use in the feild, thats why i bought new comp is for use in field and it said mac compatable when i bought it but cant find the image capturing somftware just the regi stax in mac format.