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Originally Posted by ZeroID
Hi Alga, I've got one of these as well. Picked it up for $40 off the local Trademe website cheap because it had no eyepieces. I spent about $160 after getting some advice from the Cloudy Nights forum ( many of whom are on here ) and quite happy with my purchase. I'm a bit of a tinkerer so I've made a few adjustments to the mount and it's axis controls and it sems patrly that poor assembley at the factory probably doesn't help.
I've been able to see Saturn and it's rings and few moons, the moon obviously and starting to search for other things. I need to get out somewhere with less light pollution to really get better views. I've piggy backed a 60mm refractor to the mount rings and added a red dot finder ( clever litttle beastie) and with my range of better eyepieces and a 2 x Barlow I am starting to enjoy cold nights under the stars.
I'm looking at fitting a small webcam to the refractor to take a run of images which I can try to stack and having the two scopes aligned and piggybacked means I can have the 60mm on a widefeild eyepiece and the Newt on a higher magnification. Amateur but fun to try.
Persevere and ask questions, experiment and enjoy. That's what I reckon.  |
Thanks, that make me feel a lot better and I will persevere with it and take your advice. I was going to expereinent more last night, but it as tyo cloudy and i have yet to work out where the planets are as the sky is filled with star light.