What you can do with basic equipment

Sorry, forgot about your backlight problem. could it be that the laptop is shutting down the back lighting due to a battery supply problem or power saving setting? does it still do it if the PC is plugged into the mains?

Focusing is never as easy as you might think, even with a screen,
you will never get a razor sharp image of the planet with a webcam, live on screen, as said above try focusing on the jupiters moons instead.

IF you dont use stacking, the planetary/lunar images you will get will always be poor, you really have to stack to get good quality, keep in mind that besides stacking AVIs, you can also stack individual bmp or jpg files.

When you say backlight, do you mean the screen is somehow going blank ??

Is the yellow star like object a planet, if so, then you have the exposue/gain too high and you also need a barlow to increase the size also. Unfortunately, many barlows will not reach focus on a newtonian reflector.

I find that you have to focus a bit and then watch for a while as the athmospheric disturbances will do a great impression of mis focusing.

And wait for the wobbles to finish every time you touch the focuser. The advice above is very true. Focusing is the hard part. And unless you're patient you're wasting your time.

Is the yellow star like object a planet, if so, then you have the exposue/gain too high and you also need a barlow to increase the size also. Unfortunately, many barlows will not reach focus on a newtonian reflector.

I use a barlow 100% of time. Get a good one though, its worth the investment.

Same with photos ive taken over eyepeice, on the tiny lcd on my last camera it looked in focus, but when looking at the images after, sometimes it was way of and sometimes not that bad. Better to take many pictures once you already got everything setup, then to come inside and look at one picture and its just blurred after the equipment is packed and inside.

Btw: the first image posted here is verry good, just showes how important stacking is. In comparison here is a image of same area taken with my canon300d over the eyepeice

thanks for all the advice its given me the encouragement to carry in esp. if thats the sort of results i should get. the white blob is mars from last year using the lidl skylux i was impressed to get a disc !
(sorted out the backlight installed the proper ibm video driver for the laptop - forgotten i had reinstalled windows recently and microsoft installed its own drivers )
Eirikg thanks that makes me feel better i will continue with the new reflector only got last weekend(it may be a cheap galileo but i didnt pay for it

i guess its saturn or jupiter then - just have to wait for clear night in donegal astronomy - not a great hobby for the north west.