On the way home from work I was disheartened to see the clouds rolling in. That said I was able to find a few breaks in the cloud to get a few snaps of The Moon which was extremely bright last night. Almost too bright to get a nice photo. That said, my real target was Jupiter. She is highly visible in the UK skies at the moment at very sociable hours too.
I had taken apart my Logitech C910 Webcam and fixed it to a camera film case in order to slot it into the telescope view finder however I was unable to get any useful looking photographs. I will have to spend some time trying to configure the thing, to focus is correctly. Unfortunately the weather meant I didn’t have too long, so the shots below are merely taken holding an iPhone to the lens with a [not always] steady hand.
The last photograph is Jupiter, again with the iPhone. You can just about make out a couple of it’s Moons close by. I could make out the patterns on the surface of the planet, but, predictably, this is not possible with a shaky hand holding a mobile device. The webcam is coming though!
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- The Moon as seen from SW19, UK on 06/12/2012
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- Edge shot of The Moon
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- The Moon – Close up edge shot.
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- Jupiter with a shakey hand
Bone Yard 
Wow! That’s amazing. I wish I had a telescope.