Confessions of a Frustrated Amateur Astronomer

The webcam experiment was a complete disaster.  Lucky I didn’t spend too much money on it.
The webcam is attach to the scope using the prime focus method.  That means the telescope acts as a titanic telephoto lens to the webcam.  What I didn’t realize at first is that the size of the ccd determines the [...]

Getting yourself a telescope is just the start, there are mountains of accessories you can buy for the thing.  For me, I need to fill in the gaps in my eye piece collection.  So far I have the following eye pieces:

25mm (48x)
10mm (120x)

Those are pretty low power eye pieces.  I would like to get another [...]