[Jen]

Originally Posted by AstralTraveller

You've been quiet for a while; nice to hear from you again . It sounds as though you need to speak to the owl about a freezer suit. I went for the jacket only and boots. [I use heavy corderay pants with two-layer track pants over them.]

Sorry but I've forgotten what 'scope you have and I don't know what eyepiece you are using. I also don't know how you have collimated. Are you disappointed with the view or do you just wonder whether it could be better? Jupiter isn't a great test of collimation. Centre a bright star at about 200x and rack it out of focus until you can see the Airy disc. The disc and ring should look nice and symmetrical.

If collimation is OK there are other things that can degrade images: tube currents (mirror not cool), stray light and internal reflections are three common ones.

Hey there Astral its great to be back staring into the nite sky and being in here on the crappy nites just to get my fix
i have a skywatcher 150mm reflector, i used the film cannister tecnique wif the hole in it for collimation grrrr using the 25mm eyepiece (jen really has no idea what she is doing)when i go to the moon i see stripes of white come into the scope before i get to the moon and im sure i havnt had that many drinks hahaha and i think there is 2 saturns up there in the sky ive gotta find this iceworks guy he seems to be the man