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3 minutes ago, Ande said:

I should have said that it’s easiest to find something with the telescope first, and then adjust your guidescope to match it.

I think the misalignment might be the case as you said, I will give that a shot in daylight! Cheers mate

4 minutes ago, Ande said:

Also worth aligning your finder scope with your telescope in daylight. Pick a distant tree, or chimney or something.

Hi Ande, yes I am going to be trying that tomorrow but I still expected to see something through the eyepiece even if its not in focus...

When aligning do you mean looking through the eyepiece and putting the object in the middle of the finder ? 

4 minutes ago, John said:

What are you trying to see through the scope ?

The arrangement you are using with the focuser drawtube, the 1.25 inch adapter and the eyepiece looks correct to me.

These scopes won't bring things that are in anyway close (ie: less than hundreds of metres away) to focus. They are designed to focus on astronomical targets / distances.

 

Hi John, I was trying to see the moon. I expected to see something but all I could see was blue sky which was blurry and unfocused.

To my understanding I need to turn the knobs over on the telescope to bring things into focus,  is it correct that skywatcher classic dobsonian only has one knob?

The thing is my focuser diameter is 2inch and the eyepieces provided with the telescope are 1.25inch and thats why they have supplied a 1.25inch adaptor which im using. I dont think there is anyway I can cannot my eyepiece into the focuser..

Hi everyone. Recently bought the skywatcher 8inch Dobsonian. I feel like I have assembled it wrong or something in regards to the eyepiece. Please see attached photo.

This evening I am able to see the moon through the finder easily but eyepiece I cant see anything. I have had this problem a few times now which questions me to think if I have even assembled it right?
 

Cheers for any help