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- Tue Aug 15, 2017 9:53 pm
- Forum: Beginners Forums
- Topic: New telescope, can't find jupiter
- Replies: 11
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Re: New telescope, can't find jupiter
Hihi, Have been quite busy for the past week and will be busy for the next 2 weeks too :( And whenever i can squeeze in free time the clouds will come :( I shall wait for another 2 weeks where I will be a little bit more free then try again. Hope by then jupiter won't be below the horizon. I remembe...
- Mon Aug 07, 2017 11:20 am
- Forum: Beginners Forums
- Topic: New telescope, can't find jupiter
- Replies: 11
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Re: New telescope, can't find jupiter
Hi airconvennt, Thanks for your tips! "Make sure the eyepiece is fully in before screwing in the locking screw." Done. "start with the 25mm " did that too. "Then do a slow focussing" this is the point where I see the grey circle, thus i didn't do the next step( using th...
- Sat Aug 05, 2017 8:30 pm
- Forum: Beginners Forums
- Topic: New telescope, can't find jupiter
- Replies: 11
- Views: 24415
Re: New telescope, can't find jupiter
I tried again just now at around 1940, but I still see the exact same grey circle
And no moons too :'(
And no moons too :'(
- Fri Aug 04, 2017 7:50 am
- Forum: Beginners Forums
- Topic: New telescope, can't find jupiter
- Replies: 11
- Views: 24415
Re: New telescope, can't find jupiter
Thanks for the tips! Yeah I was viewing at 9pm+. Will try again next time at around 7+
- Wed Aug 02, 2017 11:14 pm
- Forum: Beginners Forums
- Topic: New telescope, can't find jupiter
- Replies: 11
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New telescope, can't find jupiter
Hi guys, so my telescope was delivered today, and i decided to try it out tonight. It is my first telescope, a gskyer az70400. Had no problems setting it up, was quite simple. When I pointed it at the moon, was very glad that it worked perfectly, the image was very clear. However, when I tried to po...
- Fri Jul 14, 2017 9:51 pm
- Forum: Beginners Forums
- Topic: Newbie with many questions
- Replies: 8
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Re: Newbie with many questions
Hi everyone! Thank you all so much for the great answers and advices. Will definitely take all of them in to consideration before I buy. Regarding geyes30's point on having a steady mount, I've read online that we can just add weights to an unsteady mount to make it steady. Do you guys have any expe...
- Fri Jul 14, 2017 1:06 pm
- Forum: Beginners Forums
- Topic: Newbie with many questions
- Replies: 8
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Re: Newbie with many questions
Wow! Thanks for the awesome pictures!!
- Thu Jul 13, 2017 12:31 am
- Forum: Beginners Forums
- Topic: Newbie with many questions
- Replies: 8
- Views: 15803
Newbie with many questions
[smilie=hi.gif] I am new to this forum thingy so I don't really know if I should post all of these questions as 1 post or many posts, hahaha. I am assuming it would cause spam so I'm just gonna post all of them here. I'm very sorry if I am breaking any rule by doing this. Warning!! The questions I'm...