Mrlangston

I have found that images are blurry or appear to have tails when I look at brighter objects but it was fixed by a VERY small adjustment to the collimation while still looking in the eyepiece. You have to be careful not to move the image out of the field of view but by making tiny adjustments you can see the difference in quality. You may have to adjust the finder after doing this as the scope will move a little.

I could not get on with the standard red dot finder and replaced it with a rigel. The improvement was massive as I can now find things - you may find the same if you are having trouble finding things in the eyepiece (I struggled to get the moon!)

Michael

I have always had an interest in "space" but never looked seriously at the stars. I guess I thought there would be nothing to see! It has only been in the last few years that I became more serious about what is up there as there have been changes for better and worse in my life down here on Earth.

My friend has similar interests and got some binoculars. I saw Jupiter and her Galilean moons and realised that there is a lot more than my eyes can see. From then I started to recognise constellations and took more notice of the phases of our moon. One borrowed telescope was soon followed by a purchase and although I am on a very steep learning curve, I enjoy the thrill of finding an object as if I am the only person in the world (and maybe the universe!) to be looking at it.

I suppose my interest may have been partly due to the Brian Cox effect as astronomy was getting more prominent in the tv scheduling and my friends started talking about the common interest we never knew we had!