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Those pictures are taken with a webcam, no lens on the webcam or eyepiece, and not touching the scope, right?sophiecentaur said:I have no experience of smart phone imaging but my comments apply in general.bruha said:Hello,
yesterday I made some pics of moon by webcam scope adapter (attached) -I think one problem is moon movement (webcam imaging has just one magnification) and not so good resolution of webcam viewer.. If you have some experiences with this technique I will appreciate...
Yes, controlling magnification in that situation is difficult and the moon is big. You might try Saturn...
For the moon, you would probably want a focal reducer you can screw onto the adapter, which can cut the magnification by half. Next step: stacking...
http://www.astronomie.be/registax/
You can also try taking different sections of the moon and assembling a mosaic. Here's an early attempt of mine at a 2x3 mosaic, with a webcam;
http://www.russsscope.net/images/moon-12-29-06.jpg