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Originally Posted by icytailmark
took my c14 out tonight. I went to do a 3 star alignment and none of the stars that i wanted to use were listed on the gemini 2 hand control. I decided to pick siruis but the telescope didnt even go anywhere near the star. I tried to line up my finderscope on a star and that was impossible to do. Everytime i lined up a bright star in the finderscope the star didnt show up in the main scope.Then a bunch of clouds decided to roll in and it started raining.  So i didnt manage to even get the finderscope aligned. Maybe i shouldnt of bought this scope. |
I had this kind of grief at only 3m FL. You need to be fanatical at this kind of FL and align the finder with the ota during the day as mentioned, and then again on a really bright star. Over 3m is a whole world of pain generally, requires much patience.