Craig solomon

As a relative newbie to this , the sheer joy of seeing saturn last night was a great thrill , however small it looked

Hi all , ive a sky watcher 200p and am after lens , recommendations please specifically for viewing planets , eye piece and lens recommendation please 

Hi all., slowly getting used to my dobsonion skywatcher, have had the pleasure of observing orions nebula m42 last few nights , what a wonderful sight , I managed my expectations having read online about how much I would see . My question would a nebula filter make a significant difference to what I view to justify the expense ?

Agree , when I saw the moon for first time in detail it was emotional 

Thanks for everyones help , got it working last night and Wow I was not expecting to see what I saw , look forward to getting to know its capabilities 

Thanks I'll have to try it at night as the way my house is located there are no visible things to locate at distance so I will have to do at night but I read stars move to fast to do this 

10 hours ago, Dark Vader said:

Hi Craig, have you used both the 2" and 1.25" eyepiece adapters? 

Focusser should look like this for 1.25" eyepieces:

 

 

Looks like I put an extra adaptor on , would that make a difference?

10 hours ago, Dark Vader said:

Hi Craig, have you used both the 2" and 1.25" eyepiece adapters? 

Focusser should look like this for 1.25" eyepieces:

 

 

6 hours ago, Kon said:

Is the light you see in the shape of the moon out of focus or just light? If it is later, you may want to check if the finder scope and main telescope are aligned properly. You can easily miss the moon by a few degrees but the glare will come through.

Hi mate , thanks for your reply I'd say a combination of the two if I'm honest , does the finder scope and the main telescope have to be perfectly aligned , forgive my ignorance but I thought finderscope was just to locate item , but had no relationship to what you see 

Hi , I'm a technophobe and also a astronomy novice , I purchased my dobsonion,  set it up etc my problem is I can locate items like  moon etc through the view finder really clear but on the actual eyepiece ( main telescope ) if I use the moon for example all I see is light regardless which eye piece I use , or even using a moon filter , I've tried to refocus it   wondering of I've set it up wrong but no idea how 

Hi all  after help if anyone's out there ?