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I must admit to being a little underwhelmed last night but having slept on it I'm more impressed with what I got out of it despite its restrictions.
After posting I did some extra research and found out how I thought you work out the magnifications. Thanks Allan for confirming that. I didn't find anything on focusing my finder scope but, thanks again to you, I will try that, again, tonight. I do have a planisphere, Stellarium and an app for my phone but I appreciate that learning the Constellations, for star hopping, will drastically improve the experience. Rome was built in a week and all that...
The first mistake I made, last night, was putting in the 6mm EP. As I said earlier I didn't know how to work out the magnification and I was expecting this to give the LEAST magnification. Anyway I couldn't focus it and went onto the 15mm and 25mm. In fact I think I was using the 25mm when looking at Jupiter and I could still make out the bands and three moons. I was putting all kinds of lights and torches on and off last night trying to work out what did what and fiddling etc that certainly wont have helped my 'night eyes'.
My parents are over from the U.K. at the moment and my mother, who has never looked through any type of scope was certainly 'blown away', again that was likely with the 25mm EP.
So, thanks again to all of you for replying, Simmo and Vatz, I will look for your suggestions and Murphy, I may take you up on that offer. I just want to get a bit more practice in first.
One thing I did notice. When I picked up my scope yesterday and saw the size of it I thought "Maybe I should have got a smaller one"... This morning when I woke up I thought "Maybe I should've got the 12".
Clear skies people.
Cumbrian (Craig)
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