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Skys were clear, looked at moon with 25mm alone good ,then with barlow much better and even with 4mm and Barlow incredible detail and large.
Then the frustration began,Wanted to see Mars before it set -had to move table ,chair ,scope and accessories but then a fence and tree in the way!Move again- street light and house in way gave up.
Then moved back to original position, focused on Neptune a blue ball near the size of the moon appeared, I was amazed it surely couldn't be that big with this scope?
It wasn't -turned out to be a blue LED christmas light globe grrr..
Moved again ,table chair accesories tried to resolvle Neptune best I could do was a tiny dot, not much better than the naked eye.
Then moved again, focused on Orion-sirius -worse than naked eye, plus the stars turned into light cones.
Grabbed mums old 7x 50 binos, seemed better than the scope? Except for the moon.Which this scope excelled at.Couldn't stay up for Jupiter to rise.Andromeda would have been hidden by trees.
Yes there was light polution from the moon, and a bright street light opposite.
At times frustrated moving the table and all, I nursed the bloody thing, but ofcouse too much vibration doing that.My old Tasco all those years ago seemed better?
Maybe my 54 yr old eyes can't hack stargazing any more?
Or this is really just a junk scope.Its going back-will put the money toward a 6-8 inch Dobsonian.
Surely they would be better? At least easier to move around!
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