15th January 2011

Telescope setup and alignment

Using the instruction manual, I setup up the Telescope.

I also found videos on "YouTube" to aid me in balancing and aligning the Telescope.

I found these videos invaluable, as the instructions with the

Telescope can get a bit complicated for the beginner.

I had a play around with the Telescope the first night for a few hours, but

had issues finding celestrial objects. I realised the problem was with

the finder scope. I've aligned this today, with the aid of one of

the videos I've linked and hopefully, weather petmitting, I'll

have a better night tomorrow.