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Old 01-04-2013, 10:38 PM
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Allan_L (Allan)
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Hi Michael,
Welcome to IIS
Where are you located?
The photos are your typical defocused star images.
You need to turn the focus knob until they become tiny pin points of light.
Then you are in focus for that eyepiece.

Normally stat with the lower magnification eyepiece (that is with the higher number printed on it). Without barlow.

Stars cannot be magnified much by any size telescope, they are just too small a light source.
What you can see though will be clusters of stars, nebulae, and galaxies.
Of course, you will be able to see some detail on planets and moon.

Download Stellarium (free) as i will give you an idea of what to see and where to look.

Ideally go to an observing night and pick up some tips and look through some others scopes to see what you can see.

I have a 10" DOB and there are heaps of deep space objects that you can see with it.

Regards
Allan
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