Hi Terran,
I've been reading your tail of woe
with interest, as I have just recently upgraded to a decent sized scope (GSO 8" dob). All I can suggest is to hang in there and hopefully all your problems will be sorted out shortly
. When I first got the dob, I was away from home and set up in a caravan park just under one of the "street lights" in the park. As the other guys have said, light pollution will not be very good for seeing the dso's. I didn't manage to see many dso's with any structure or anything, but some brighter objects such as jupiter. When we got back home to a darker site, we started to see some dso's and planets with great detail. M42, 47 tuc, jup with cloud bands, saturn & its rings, etc, I'm still learning the night sky
.
One thing is for sure; all the guys on this site will do their best to help you out, as I found when I asked for their advice before purchasing a scope. I just recently read Duncan's review of the 12" Gso dob, and he was blown away with it
, you can find it here:
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/index.p...41,410,0,0,1,0
Hopefully you can get to the stage where you are confident in the equipment you have, and if you can get to a nice dark sky site, you too will be blown away with what you see.
Look forward to you sorting it out.
