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My chances are very thin for being able to take this telescope anywhere often. I don't have a way to transport it, and the only chance I have is on a rare occasion through my brother, who isn't nearby and works night-shift anyway. I would really like to take it down to an observing night, but that doesn't look like a possibility for a while. I might be lucky though, who knows.
Regarding collimation - comparing it to Bintel's collimation and some important info I've recieved here, it SEEMS that the idea I had in the first place was right and very simple, and my original manual collimation was fine. I should be able to make it better than it currently is, especially with my new sight tube. If I can get this scope to work, I'll consider unscrewing the eye-hole piece from my sight tube so that its just an empty tube with a crosshair, then taping a webcam to the sight tube and putting it into the focuser. It seems a lot easier to get a stable and centered view through a webcam, and you can adjust the screws while watching its alignment on a computer screen.
Sorry for even more questions -
1. Are faint shadows in a pitch black environment all I can expect from this thing? Bintel told me I should easily see structures everywhere, yet I see nothing, not even the faintest outline of a shadow, nothing at all. Just a few more stars than the finderscope. My eye pieces all say Bintel on them. I have a 32mm wide view, and plossl in 9mm, 12mm, and 15mm. I dont know how good they are, but Bintel did recommend the 12mm for image quality reasons (cost about $40 I think). The quality and brightness of Orions nebula is about same on all eye pieces.
2. I don't have issues with lights close by affecting my views of the dark. My eyes adjust fast and it's not a problem. I've been covering my head in a shroud while viewing anyway to make sure no other light is getting into the eyepiece. But the light pollution from my suburb (The Entrance) as well as nearby suburbs, do glow up the horizon like a full moon does. So using a full moon as an example - Should the glow from a full moon make it impossible to see structures in the sky?
Also, there wouldn't be anyone here who lives at or nearby The Entrance would there? Some first hand comments on the light pollution around here might "clear" some things up. I have no reference to light pollution levels and how much it interferes with the view.
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