Hi everyone! Hope you all had a great Christmas and holiday season. We've had a great time, although this heat can bugger off now!
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Originally Posted by Coen
Curious whether it has all worked out with "first light" etc.
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Errrr, well, it's been a little difficult! We just cannot work out how to polar align it correctly and also getting the guidescope aligned properly. It seems we always have to re-adjust it every time!
We have had a good look at the moon
it was amazing!
We think we know where Jupiter is (the brightest star in the western sky?) but we have to be quick for it because we have some big trees in our neighbour's yard that are blocking the view, and it's out pretty early, right? By about 9pm it has started to go down behind the trees. I did find it in the scope but it was all blurry?
So that's another problem, when we have a look it seems really blurry. I'm not sure what we're doing wrong!
What eyepiece do you use for what sort of viewing? We have a 10mm and 25mm wide angle plus the 2x barlow. These should be okay for now, right?
We've ordered the Astronomy 2009 book so just waiting on that!
Oh another (probably silly!) question... there's 3 removable parts on the end of the scope (that points to the sky). The little lens cap, the bigger lens cap that's the width of the scope and then also a piece that's like a cup that fits over the scope comes off too.
Are there times when all you do is remove the small lens cap? Or do you always take off the two lens cap pieces? What about the cup type cap?
As you can see, we're COMPLETE beginners!
Oh, need to invest in some roll-on Aeroguard too!
