Eyepiece Projection First Light

As I use photography to document my observations, I'm normally not that interested in eyepieces, but as many family and friends want see the wonders of the night sky for themselves, I took delivery of a Celestron zoom (8-24mm) eyepiece.
After a day of murky skies I had just a couple of hours of clear skies before fog rolled in.

For a relatively cheap eyepiece, I found it produced very crisp images with good contrast, although darkening at high powers as one would expect from a 'zoomer'. Field of view was adequate, 40° - 60°, with an eye relief of 15-18mm. Not parfocal, I had to adjust the focus slightly after changing powers.
I was very pleased to discover underneath the eyecup, threading to directly couple a camera for eyepiece projection.

I wanted to grab a little something of what I was seeing, so on went the 462 and I captured two videos of about thirty seconds of footage; once at 460x480, and again at 1920x1080, before seeing became poor.

The feature here is the pyroclastic Aristarchus Plateau, featuring the Agricola mountain range, the Schröter's valley rille and the bright crater Aristarchus. Definitely worth a revisit at a later date.

Frames were stacked in AutoStakkert!3, then tweaked in SiriL and Adobe PhotoShop.