My New Telescope wont work

[hummer50]

Thanks for giving me advice here, I appreciated it.

There is quite a bit to learn about using a scope and finding stars/planets, and getting the most out of your views. A lot of it comes down to experience.

Can you give me advice on how to search for galaxy? The store who sold me this telescope told me that I can see galaxy with this telescope, and Im very eager to look another galaxy. I tried scrolling through the night sky but just cant find anything. I almost break my neck trying.

Your english is fine. We can understand it. But I just wanted to make sure you understood what everyone else was writing to you in this thread.

Yeap I understand every single word of it when I reading. But if talking, sometime I cant catch what local Australian are actually saying. Maybe I dont get used to Australian slang yet... But weird thing is when I watch hollywood movie I understand every word coming out of it.

Use the 25mm first. Centre Mars in your eye piece. The put the 10mm eye piece in. If you have bad atmospheric conditions, you won't see too much detail. That being said, you'll see a lot more detail once you get some more experience.

Got it.

[DJVege]

Umm...finding galaxies is similar to looking for anything up in the sky. The only thing is, dark skies really help when galaxy hunting. My advice is to use forget about galaxies for now. Concentrate on learning the sky for now. Find stars, find constellations, find planets, find clusters. It may SOUND boring, but you will have fun doing so. And this really helps to learn the sky, which in turn will help you finding other stuff up there, including nebulae and galaxies.

Just remember you won't see bright colours and spirals that will fill your eye piece. They will look like longish smudges, but the more experience you get looking through an eye piece, the more you will see.

For now, you're still a n00b at using the scope, so keep playing around with it and trying to find the easy stuff. The rest will fall into place as you learn more.

Good luck!

[erick (Eric)]

And get some good star charts or computer planetarium software. www.stellarium.org is used by several and was recommended earlier by Jarrod. Then you can look up galaxies that you read about on this site and work out where they should be in the sky compared to the constellations and stars. Yes, spend most time on the stars and constellations now, but sneak in an attempt to find M104 or the M65/M66 close pair. In dark skies, around midnight, either right now or when the Moon moves away in 2-3 weeks, the worst you can do is not find them. I didn't find M104 on my first few attempts with the telescope, but M65/M66 I accidentally stumbled across with binoculars! All these three should be easily seen when you find them (dark skies, no Moon and collimated scope, using your 25mm eyepiece).