Hey all,
I'll give you a quick brief, I'm a newbie to the scene. I had fond memories of using my older brothers telescope when I was younger and finally decided to get one. I wanted to avoid buying a telescope which I would end up upgrading from early one so I bought a 10" Dob... I think I might have thrown myself truly into the deep haha
I've got it all set up now though and have been doing a lot of reading but I've been trying to use it tonight and I can't seem to find anyone with the same issue as me. I'm wondering if maybe my scope is buggered? (I really feel like I might being doing something silly in reality)
So here's my issue. The moon is currently not available so I lined up my finder with my main scope during the day which went all good and now tonight I've tried using it to look at Saturn. I can find Saturn easily in the finder but when I look through the EP I see a big white blur covering the full view or partial (tried multiple EPs) but either way I've got the secondary mirror and it's holding beams blocking my view, I can't focus out of it; I can move the full length along the focuser and while I see a slight change the blockage is still there and image a total blur. Weirder yet is that if I slightly offset my main scope ie: if I push it across a little I find that the cross bar remains in the center of the blur rather than moving with the center of the FOV. I've tried looking at a few objects and found that even when I looked at a star it was the same issue - almost exact same blur etc. I'm 99.9% sure I was looking at saturn so I'm really really confused!
Someone please tell me what stupid thing I'm doing