[Chasing Sanity (Elizabeth)]

After being intriuged by the new Jupiter 'bruise' I adopted my brother's abandoned DSE 114mm Newtonian Telescope. He lost his temper with it fairly quickly, so it was chucked in the shed and forgotten. Is this a good beginner scope? It's got a dinky wobbly tripod.

I've got some lenses that I don't understand, and the 'manual' is very useless. What are erecting eye pieces for? I have a 2x and a 1.5x.

Is there a way to line up planets without using the cross hair scope thing? Because it's in the wrong place! I'm not a contortionist!! I've gathered from reading here that the best way to use a scope like this is lying down?

I think my eyes are too small! In each lens I use (super plossl? a 6 a 10 and a 30) I only get a tiny little bit of view?

What does EP mean?

Halp!