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Why Can't I See Mars!
Hi All!
I've been looking through the threads and am a brand new member and extremely new at this astronomy stuff. Based on exhaustive research both here (thank you very much) and on other sites, I purchased a 150MM reflector telescope and now I think I made an expensive mistake! I looked at the Dobsonian but boy were they huge and I wanted something fairly portable.
Got Mars in my crosshairs, looked through my 25MM eye piece thingy, seeing lots and lots of stars. Slowly twiddling the adjustment things, I see the outline of Mars! Wow, but then backing off to see the whole image and it's gone! If I can't see Mars, how is it going to work with the Moon and Venus! Do I need a different kind of eye piece. It also came with a 9MM but I couldn't see anything at all with that.
This is a stupid question but did I buy too powerful of a telescope or am I doing something way wrong. We plan on attending night viewings with a club for help but this is a present for my husband and I want to get it set up right for the October 30/31 viewing of Mars.
Can anyone help? Thanks for your time.
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