Telescope/Astro Photography w/ Point & Shoot Camera

I took some moon photos tonight with the Z750. The weather was perfect!

This first shot is how it looks just with the Z750 at full zoom:


Here's the moon shot through my telescope which is an Orion Starblast reflector telescope, 4.5' diameter, 26x zoom which I guess means it has an equivalent 35mm focal length of about 1300mm. It's probably the cheapest reflector you can get. (click on the image to see larger size.)

You can see some softness in the moon horizon--this seems to be a limitation of the combined Z750/telescope optics I haven't been able to overcome.



















However, Picture Cooler + some Photoshopping does a pretty good job of correcting it. Here's the PP'd image. (click on the image to see a larger size).


















Here are some photos of the telescope rig: