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Well, I pulled the mirrors out and cleaned them. Put them back in an recollimated them as best I could without a laser collimator. Everything is a lot clearer now but I still have poor results from these eyepieces. They do look like cheap EP's.
The moon is a lot cleaner with the 25mm but my 6.5mm is crap (still the same as it was before I cleaned it) - really blury. I double checked that what I am looking at is in fact Venus and Jupiter and I sure I am locating them correctly. I still have the same results - I can see Jupiter better than Venus but it is still very small - now that I have cleaned the mirror I can see 4 moons around Jupiter but they are extremely small little dots of light.
I am keen to borrow a good eyepiece to have a look through for testing purposes and also a laser collimator so I can align the mirrors properly.Trouble is I don't know anyone. Is there someone in the community around Brisbane southside that could help me out? Or perhaps a club meeting I could go along to in my area?
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