The whole contraption looks like this: ... and from the camera end: Now, I didn't have too high hopes for this: the tripod is quite horrible (very unstable, lots of flexure, there's way too much friction to overcome to move the head, etc), the camera is cheap, the focus is simply a tube one pushes in or out of the main scope tube, and the scope itself is made of plastic and creaks when I touch it... Also, I think the seeing was quite horrible today. Even bright Venus twinkled to the naked eye, and there was thin sheets of cloud high in the sky. Anyway, here are some star snapshots: I think I must have succeeded with the focus, right? That's the airy disk and its first ring that's visible, if I'm not mistaken? The C270 has a pixel size of 2.8 µm square, and a resolution of 1280x720, so the sensor size is 3.58 mm x 2.02 mm. 12 Dimensional String tells me that this combination of telescope and camera gives a resolution of 1.16'' per pixel. The field of view is 25' x 14' or there abouts. This page tells me that the resolvable resolution for a scope of this size is 2.7'', or 2.35 pixels - so even with perfect focus, everything will look blurry, I guess. Here's an overexposed venus and a blurry jupiter: And finally a snapshot of the moon: All these images are unprocessed single snapshots. The camera seems to be capable of about 20 frames/s at full resolution. It will be interesting to try it out on the Mak later, in better seeing!