[Alex Paul]

Don: What a beauty of a fieldscope that is.......Your set up is anything but laughable.... You have an excellent engineering mind my friend... Widefield work is a fabulous option as well...Now that I have the info on posting thumbnails I will get involved with the thread in a show, tell, ask, and share kind of way... I will start tomorrow... I am going to take a quick look for conditions for some shooting tonight....Orion is in view at about 3:00am to the east of me and gets perfect for shooting at about 4:00 am right now..... I will help with the fast track to using Registax... It will do most things automatically including choosing the stackable images, aligning them, and stacking....It is actually a lot more straight forward than it appears in the beginning... I will also show how to set up and use a Webcam for imaging, using a laptop and a program called KCCD which allows you to do everything from the laptop once webcam is attached to scope and mount is aligned...Extremely high quality images with very little noise.... I spent some time playing with it and it is what I was playing with at the time I started wanting to get some sleep at night. I didn't go as far as I did with shooting the DSLR but I learned some basics and the results once you get a good handle on it are fantastic! Talk about best bang for the buck... Great imaging using a 49 dollar webcam ....Take care pal...Thanks for getting me fired up with this again.....Alex