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Hi guys, Total dummy here... While I am waiting for my new SkyWatcher Classic 200 Dob, I still would like to play around with my super wobbly PowerShaaaaaker 114. So I have BST eye pieces and the Celestron NeXYZ holder. Doesn't seem I can get it in the right position.... always something on the way and running out of adjustment (which you control the distance between the phone and eye piece). Can anyone post a picture about correct set up, if you are using the same gears. Many thanks is advance

Honest accident To be fair, I was close to pick up the hammer...

Thank you for the input for everyone. After last night and this morning battle in our garden, I have to announce 114 is fallen. The Ministry of Finance and Treasury (aka wife) gave the green light and just put in an order at FLO. I ordered a Skywatcher 200 Dob. I am too old for wasting my time to try to fix something hardly fixable. Reading out this forum, I believe it is going to be a great starter one and not going to drive me mad.

you were correct, 4.3kg on the scale

After spending my whole worktime on different articles and forum topics, came to the conclusion, maybe better if I set the 114 on fire ( I will leave out the "throwing down from Ben Nevis" due my leave no trace policy) and start to look for some better set up (now I seen a moon so close, no way back...). According my updated excel sheet, if I sell some of my camping stoves (has around 16 different...), I can get one of this https://www.firstlightoptics.com/telescopes-in-stock/skywatcher-skyliner-200p-dobsonian.html

I would say, even a cheap Ikea chair would do better stand for the scope. Thank you.

Hey Vlaiv, Thank you for your input. Funny enough, I had my eyes on a second hand one yesterday, but I wasn't sure about it... I think my tube is over 7kg and is exceeds the load limit (but, I can't imagine, that anything can be worse than the original Celestron one).

Thanks Geoff, I went through on the forum and while I found lots of different suggestion, I haven't find anyone, who actually came back and reported on specific upgrade. Maybe everyone ended up buying a new scope.

Hello all, This is my first post. I am new ( 3 days old) in astronomy observation, so please don't judge me. I was toying with the idea to buy a telescope for long time now, but always something else came up. Few days ago I found something interesting (at least I though it is interesting) for sale. After a fair bit of bargaining, I managed to buy a Celestron PowerSheeker 114 + some eye pieces with it for £50. The telescope is technically brand new (some old chap got it as a present and he didn't have a clue about it) and as added bonus came with a BST StarGuider 2X Barlow and BST StarGuider 8, 12 and 25mm eye pieces. Looking the current prices, I just managed to make a bargain because the eye pieces. So where I am now and this is the point, where I need your help. I managed to take some good look at the moon so far (living in Scotland...pretty challenging to have cloud free sky) and I was impressed. The quality of the view is amazing, but at this point..... I would recommend for Celestron to rename the scope to PowerShaker. Holy father, the mount and tripod are absolutely shockingly bad. I need to improve this bit, otherwise I will set the whole lot on fire and throw it down from Ben Nevis. So my goals: - next 12-18 months I want to explore and observe some of the planets in our lovely solar system - just look the moon in close details, impress Misses - take some photos (no high expectations, just some simple nice shots with my phone... I ordered already a phone holder for the scope) - if it is going well, I would like to invest in a proper telescope in roughly 18 months time (I have a few expensive hobby, so according my excel sheet, 18 months is a realistic period to splash out max £2k) What I want to improve: - I try to find solution for the tripod - mount situation - upgrade the finder scope..... the current has an equal quality of a pirate costume accessory from the fancy dress shop My budget: - oh well, here comes the usual. I am happy to invest max £200 at the moment Is anyone can come up with a genius idea about the tripod/mount situation? Also, could you recommend some red dot finder, which one is straight fits on the scope so I don't have to be McGyver? Many thanks in advance... A crazy Hungarian from Scotland