Baldurth

Thanks everyone for great advice. I took my scope outside during the day as adviced and I was able to see the mountains that surrounds the town I live in. When I was going back out in the evening it was to cloudy to see anything so I will try again tonight. 

Hi everyone,

I am stepping my first steps in the star gazing world and am stuck. I have SkyWatcher Explorer-130 and have set it up best of my knowledge along with the latitude. When I try gaze in the sky at night I don't see anything. I have tried different sizes of lenses but no luck.

Should I not be able to see something even though I have not polar aligned the scope?

Thank

Hi everyone

I am trying to set up my SkyWatcher Explorere 130 EQ". As I am living in Iceland I set it up according to instructions to the Latitude around 65°. AS you can see in the pictures  the scope is almost point direct north and I am having hard time seeing anything.

I have viewed videos on Youtube and as far as I can see I have set it up correctly but for some reason I feel like I am doing something wrong?

Any advice?

Hi @Zermelo

No I am living in Iceland. Thanks for the link. I will check it out.

Hi everyone,

My wife gave me Skywatcher Explorer 130m EQ2 for birthday. I have not been able to use since it is bright 24X7. So until I can start to use i am doing research. My scope came with three lenses:

• 25mm (36x)
• 10mm  (90x)
• 2x Barlow.

I have been trying to find a bag for it and lenses and filters. I have found lenses online but what I am trying to find is how I can tell what quality the lenses are. Are there brands of lenses I should stay away from and so on. 

What online stores are good to find products and information about products for the telescope?

Appreciate any advice given.

Baldur