BC,
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Originally Posted by BC
Sorry, I should clarify, the views from the binos were vastly better than expected, hence big wow factor. The views from the 10" are not as good as expected, hence no wow factor....
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Haven't we spoken before, you emailed through my website some weeks back about this scope. You brought it from Bintel in Sydney.
It's sounding to me that it is need of collimnation. I mean the optic are out of whack. Newtonians can be knock out of whack quite easliy. And would probably almost definitely need it after a drive from Sydney.
have a read of this article on collimating your scope. If you take your time you should easliy be able to master this and get it bang on after a couple of practices.
http://skyandtelescope.com/printable...rticle_790.asp
Here is another on the subject...
http://www.oarval.org/collimatE.htm
Failing that see if you can take it along to a local Astro society in Canberra and have one of their people look at it. Read the article trying their tricks to see if it is infact a collimation error.
Please let me know how you do!!
kindest regards