Looking through a Celestron NexStar 8, Schmidt-Cassegrain 8-inch aperture Telescope and a hacked a Logitech c-510 HD webcam. .. is powerful and very clear due to it's great light gathering quailty.. This webcam still has a CMOS sensor camera and someday I may look into hacking a higher quaility (and price) CCD HD webcam.. part of the fun is seeing if it will still work once ya tear it apart! :)