Hi All,
Well, it finally arrived, piggybacked in the container full of our business' stock.
A short-tube 6-inch Newtonian, on a surprisingly solid EQ mount. Granted, it is a simple Chinese one, but for the price, I just had to get it and have a crack.
Now, being new to this game, I was pretty chuffed to be able to assemble it all in about 20 minutes, with no spare parts.
Giving it a quick run outside the other night, Sirius and a couple of his mates were partly visible through the light cloud.
I was able ( I think ) to line up the secondary pretty well (I have no collimation gear as yet ... I wanted to see if the scope was worth the expenditure at this stage), but I am not so confident with the primary mirror.
At the moment, if I home in on a star, regardless of the eyepiece that I use, the image that I see has light tails off to the lower left. I don't know what this means, and I am hoping that it signifies that the primary is out of alignment, and can be brought into line fairly smartly.
Is anyone close by, on the Central Coast, that can possibly help me to right this, one day (night)?
Many thanks in advance. Any questions, please feel free ....
