[that_guy (Tony)]

Hi guys, some of you may know that I recently purchased an 8" CF GSO Newt astrograph from andrews. All seemed well until i took it out for the first time to a dark site with the astroanarchy crew. The camera wouldnt focus! I thought it was a bit weird that when I was aligning my telrad that the eyepiece didn't need an extension tube (it was supplied with the telescope under the assumption youd need one). than when i attached the camera to the telescope, there wasnt enough in focus. Now I understand that visual newts have this problem but I bought this with the intention to image since it was designed for dslr photography (f/4 carbon fibre, dual speed focuser and all). Noone at the star party could figure it out! Astropete was there from astropete cafe but even he was stumped. There should be no reason it shouldnt be focusing. There were a couple of people there that had the same type of scope from GSO (steel not CF but same design) that had no problem with in focus. Ive also read reviews on this scope that people said had no problem reaching focus for dslr. The dslr i used was a canon 500d so its not the problem there. So I guess my question is this, is this something I can fix (for relatively cheap or free) or would it be easier to return it to andrews and receive a refund/replacement.