Craig, after taking the lens and zoom out of it I was out that night testing but, I was having a hard time getting Jupiter with the 5x and worked with sharpcap for a while until Jupiter disappeared behind a tree. It does look as though if I wanted I could do the SC1 mod and use it for long exposure. There's a wealth of info on this awesome lil' cam Craig. I've been trying to get my hands on one for 2 yrs. and finally have my very own. This lil' color cam is pretty darn good it's not a mono cam , I've got one . I can now switch my QHY5-ii mono with the spc900 and do imaging or guiding they both are light and good lil' cams. I've got a 1 1/4' threaded adapter that's made just for the spc900 so it fits in the focuser , barlow or powermate .

Thank You, Singing Swan. I never took your original post as offensive.
Here in California, we have annual fire seasons. And folks get burned out of house and home. I've seen it for 66 years now.
Natural disasters will occur. And the more densely populated the world gets, the more these will effect and become a tragedy for more people. (World population 1900 ~ 1 billion; today ~7 billion.)
Strength is rising above it, recovering from it, and carrying on with life. I had two cousins who were totally wiped out in Mississippi by Hurricane Katrina. The only thing left was the slab of their house. What was all over the news? New Orleans, because it flooded. Mississippi hardly got a minute of coverage, but was far worse.
My cousin's husband, and her little brother came to California and bought RV's to drive back to live in while they rebuilt.
When Mount Saint Helen's popped her cork, we got 1/2 to 3/4's of an inch of volcanic dust in Wyoming, 1000 miles East. We changed air filters in our cars a lot, and cleaned up the layers daily. No big deal. Not worth fret or worries. Just an event in life. Continue to move forward.
A Friend of mine use to say, "Ca-Ca Occurs".
So do you fret, worry, and look at it? Or grab a shovel and pick it up, quietly?
I think you and I are the type to grab that shovel.... ;)
When clouds occur, I just wish for rain and wait. I know there are always brighter days ahead. :)

Singing swan, HA HA HA ! lead lined room could work but, I'm a disabled amateur astronomer and a 2 min. mod took me and my CNA 1h 15 min. to complete because we were trying to be careful not to break the plastic housing and I almost cut my finger off in the process with a razor knife It was a bugger but, if I had 2 working hands I could have done it a quicker. It's now modded and I've tested it once on Jupiter @60fps YUY2 and when I do the SC1 mod it'll become a deep space imager for long exposures.