How do I see stuff with my telescope?
Alex asked:
I bough a new telescope and have a studied celestial maps. I tried to look at the Moon and I couldn’t see anything. I’ve just put everything together. The model is a Celestron Astromaster 76eq.
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I bough a new telescope and have a studied celestial maps. I tried to look at the Moon and I couldn’t see anything. I’ve just put everything together. The model is a Celestron Astromaster 76eq.
December 1st, 2009 at 12:21 pm
Look through the eyepiece. christinee ♥
December 4th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
look through it you idiot roflcopters
December 6th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
adjust your focus? You looking in the tiny end? Lens cap off? El Stump de Bacon
December 9th, 2009 at 5:07 am
Did you take off the dew cap at the end? That’s the first step. Then you need to have an eyepiece in the eyepiece holder, and focus it correctly. This is a lot easier to do during the day than at night. And it helps a lot to have someone standing there helping you - have you joined a local astronomy club? They’re always willing to help. eri
December 10th, 2009 at 12:43 am
looks like you dint remove the cap on Lens? Deviation D
December 12th, 2009 at 11:30 pm
If you’re just starting out, it’s surprisingly difficult to find something with a telescope. It’s even stranger to find things when the image isn’t necessarily moving like you think it should. Aligning a sighting scope is a delicate thing to do, like lining up a rifle-scope… only probably harder, because your field of view is tiny, and where a rifle scope will give you a background to compare against to find what you’re looking for, all a telescope sight has to look at is black and some white dots of light.
I know, it seems like finding the Moon is easy, but it isn’t necessarily as easy you’d think.
So… just put some time into it, you’ll get the hang of it. Mark V
December 15th, 2009 at 10:20 pm
I would suggest setting it up in the daytime and aiming at a distant (the further the better) terrestrial target. Unlike celestial objects, they won’t move, and you can get your finderscope at least roughly aligned so that you can fine tune it later at night.
Whatever your viewing target is, start with the LOWEST magnification, which will be the longest focal length eyepiece that came with the scope. That gives you the widest field and steadiest view.
If there is a manual, read that too. Search first before you ask it