We went to Lostock Dam.
We set up and had a spot of dinner then I set it the scope up. I had one leg pointing south and positioned the counterweight over that leg. Leveled it out and adjusted the declination to 32°.
I tried endlessly to 'zero' in the red dot finder scope, the best result I could get was to point the red dot to the left of what I'm trying to observe. Which was fine finding the moon and Jupiter. Other than that it was useless.
We observed the moon, in great detail. It was a jaw dropping experience for me, having never seen it so clear and close in person. We also observed Jupiter, couldn't make out any detail on Jupiter because it was so bright, we could make out some of the moons though. Next after alot of trial and error I managed to found orions belt through the scope.
The night was cut short just after 10 because of cloud cover.
So my overall thoughts are, I found the finderscope next to useless. And I have no idea how to use the coordinate system on the scope. The best I could manage was point and hope for the best.
But that hasn't deterred me from going out again and again.
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