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Old 09-05-2017, 11:57 AM
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enjoy the scope and the sky! make sure you took/take the time to adjust the finderscope to the eyepiece as accurate as possible. when you start trying to find particular targets you end up doing a lot of star hopping. so a well aligned finderscope will get you to an identifiable starting point. nothing worse than star hopping from a star you misidentified. getting to know a few constellations across the sky around the year always help to orient yourself and give you good starting point options for star hopping. Of coursemake sure you know which way in the eyepiece is up/down/left/right as it can be tricky at first. I used to put a small piece of masking tape on top of my visual scope near the eyepiece with UDLR labelled so I always had that as a reference for direction if i needed. The southern cross you should be familiar with but if you take a close look at the brightest stars you may be able to see several are actually double stars! Also the leftmost star in the cross, just left of it and down a little is The Jewelbox cluster. Clusters will be nice and bright for your scope and there are plenty to track down in the sky
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