Help with TouCam

[Leegsi]

I have a toucam webcam with the nose piece and taken some lovely avi's of the moon with my SW150 and created some ok images.

My question is how do I take an avi of the whole moon or avi's of closer craters etc?

At the moment i fit the webcam in place of an eye piece.

[ringz]

If you want the whole moon you will need to make a mosaic, stitching various overlapping images together.

The usual way to increase image size with a webcam is to use a Barlow lens.

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Martyn.

[Leegsi]

Out here now trying to image Mars.

All I get is a white blob on the screen?

I have tried adjusting sime of the sliders (Brightness etc) but its still all I see.

I have focused so the the white blob is as small and round as I could get.

Am I doing something wrong?

[Cornelius Varley]

Out here now trying to image Mars.

All I get is a white blob on the screen?

I have tried adjusting sime of the sliders (Brightness etc) but its still all I see.

I have focused so the the white blob is as small and round as I could get.

Am I doing something wrong?

Have a read of this primer Primer planetary imaging toucam

[Leegsi]

Thats what I used and got some good images of the moon but Mars was just a white blob lol

[weatherman]

Yes, similar with me too. I can image (using the Toucam adapter through an ETX70) but because I have to replace the eypience with the Toucam adapter I only get a very small part of the sky.

Is there a way that I can put the Toucam through an eyepiece?

Sorry if I am missing something obvious.

Thanks,

Simon

[Leegsi]

Still only getting a white blob for Mars

[themos]

Try to reduce the gain or increase the shutter speed. the webcam has a very small dynamic range and it's no good saturating it.