[nakisawame]

Hi everyone,

I posted sometime before Christmas asking for advice on what entry-level telescope to buy and got great feedback and so was hoping to find some information on my current issue!

I eventually went for the SkyWatcher Explorer-130/900 EQ2 Telescope and we finally got around to setting it up yesterday (after the arrival of our first baby, thing's got a little delayed to say the least!).
The problem we are having is correctly aligning the red dot finder. We manually located the moon and then moved over to the red dot finder and started adjusting using the 2 wheels - but the wheels don't seem to go far enough? They eventually get too tight to move any further but the red dot is still way off (needs to go further right).
Are we doing something wrong or is our red dot finder faulty? Very frustrating as it was a struggle to find a large moon, no chance looking at anything else! Also - the image is upside down and rotated slightly? More like it's at 225 degrees. Is this normal/does it affect our night time viewing?

Thanks for reading!

Hannah