Need some help starting off
Hey guys, great community you have here just to start with that.
Two days ago I bought my Skywatcher 150 x 1200 Dobsonian Reflector, being my first telescope, and an upgrade from my 8-11x50 binoculars, I was really excited to hear from the store owner that that night was going to be very good, which inded lived up to that. At about 6:20pm I saw Jupiter to my NE and got a beautiful image of it an the Gallilain moons, which I observed for about 20-30min and took some drawings in my book on the moons orbit, next I was rived to find something else, I waited about 2 hours so that the sky was dark enough for things to be seen clearly, I had about 200-250 stars above me, I found the Orion Nebula to my very NE, I was very excited as I locted it through my finder scope to actually see it(I understood id only see a small cloud like thing, nothing like the photo's from Hubble) but when I found it with my 25mm lens I was a bit dissapointed as I saw just 3 bright stars in the sky, so I swapped to my 10mm hoping to see something a little better but still nothing much more than 3 stars as could be seen through basic binoculars, so I tried navigating to find something else I went to other messier objects to find I still cant see much more than a bright light(Like a star) and my telescope is all ready for obs. as my local astronomy shop did all the corilation for me and I did ajust the focus but still nothing was really working.
All I saw that night was Jupiter, which wasnt a total disappointment as it was trully amazing to see its gas bands. But this has followed up to the past night as well as I tried looking at Venus before it set into the horrizen and all I saw was this bright orange looking star. What am I doing wrong guys?
Thanks Appricate your time!
-Jason
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