Here are photos using a $70 Connectix QuickCam and an 8" SCT (C8) at f20. These were taken in 1998.

Click on any of these images to see them full size...

Below is a photo of the moon:

Below is Saturn. Notice the Cassini gap on the ring near the outside edge of the ring. I'm told this is one arc-second seeing... from my front yard in Denver at 4am.

Below is Jupiter. The cloud belts are visible:

The image below contains the large crater named Archimedes - notice the shadow of the  right rim being cast inside the crater. The irregularity of the shadow shows the shape of the top edge of the crater's rim. A little bit of trig can be used to calculate the height of the rim.   (I'll try that soon...)  This photo has been image processed.

Also notice the fine detail in Bradley Rima -- a small rille (or snaking valley) that is two crater diameters south of the Archmedes... it runs from the SW to the NE.

The picture of Bradley Rima above has the Apennine Mountains running from the lower left corner towards the center of the image.  These are the mountains that Apollo 15 drove around on in 1971. (Their landing spot in the above image is at the top of the string of mountains, near dead-center in the image, just as it becomes over-exposed)  Below is a NASA image of the same mountains showing the lunar module on a stark lunar surface. (Notice the angle at which the module is sitting!)   The Apennine Mountains are in the background; tire tracks that will last thousands of years in the foreground!

Below is the same image of the area that I took above, but heavily processed (increased contrast) to show the shadow of the left rim of the crater.  The crater itself is about 40 miles across. Some of the jagged edges of the shadow reveal details that must be less than a mile! I am blown away by the resolution a hacker like me can get with a $70 camera sitting on the sidewalk in Denver...

Below: The Alps, Vallis Alpes.

This last photo isn't one I took, as you'll see when you examine it, but it is probably the most stunning moon crater photo I've come across.  Zoom in to see it in detail.