[DcifrThs (Barron)]

hey guys,

this forum seems perfect for this. i'm visiting my friend in cancun and brought with me (through customs and everything) the 116pound telescope hoping to see the YU55 asteroid last night. unfortunately, we saw nothing. literally nothing.

we've troubleshot this to the best of our abilities and tried to find threads focusing on it but there are only threads on 1/2 of the problems. we're having 2 main ones:

1. aligning the telescope. we've tried this numerous times and after each time it says "alignment successful" we do a logic test where we tell it to go to the moon. it's never even close. one time it got within maybe 5-6 degrees of it but still, way off.

but more worrying,
2. we can't ever see anything through the 26mm eyepiece. literally nothing. it's just always black (and yes the lens cover is most certainly off). i thought perhaps this was due to the moon being so bright last night but we saw the moon and some stars fine (though that doesn't say much at all).

it seems to me that 2 may prevent us from doing 1 right. any help/insight/thoughts?

thanks so much in advance!!