Hi everyone,
Finally a night of "clearer" skies and early to bed neighbours.....
I managed to get some good viewing time this time round....
THE YAYS!!!
There was a really bright star in the sky last night, being a noob, I had absolutely no idea what it was.... I think it was roughly westish (Sirius?)
But I had a look at it anyway and I could just make out the circular shape of the star. The brightness was piercing, I had to use a moon filter.
Looking throught th 2' 25mm eyepeice I could see alot more stars than I could with my naked eye..... wow. 25 mm certainly offers a wider field of view than the 1.25 ones.... I think I will get 2' eyepeices from now on. Will Barlows work with 2'? (somehow I doubt it...)
THE NAYS !!!
I found that while I have pinpointed the star in my finderscope, I still couldn't see it with my dob, I had to still nudge the thing around to being it in to view. Sometimes this took a long time.
I found that moving the dob around to search for stuff isn't easy, especially when the object is low in the horizon.
The eyepeices with the wider views 25mm was easier to use... but when I wanted higher magnification I used the 6.9... sometimes I couldn't pinpoint the star in the scope as the view is so small.
I tried a green colour filter and everything went dim.... are colour filters overated?
All in all it was a better experience than my first night of viewing, even though I pretty much had only one object to look at. I can't wait to see the moon when it comes back.