Fozzie

This is my humble offering, a few spaces to fill, a 20mm TVP on its way for one of them..

Would like to add a 7mm xcel lx, 14mm ES82, and a wide field above 24mm yet to be decided upon..

Maybe some 2" filters too...

Thanks for looking.

A week ago I stupidly some how managed to break a slow motion control on my eq5 and I enquired with Steve @ FLO about a replacement, knowing full well these seem to be quite difficult to source in the uk. FLO came back within the hour stating they had enquired with the suppliers and we're awaiting a response.. Yesterday, mainly because I feel my enquiry was trivial I got fed up of waiting for a response via FLO... Let's face, it I'm happy with the FLO response, but they will have some serious enquiries to deal with so I ordered a few items including the eq5 flex controls on Friday afternoon.... Delivered Saturday morning...

Again prompt response, I believe they enquired forward and Saturday delivery from a Friday afternoon order...

Don't think you can ask for more really (however if that slow mo control knob turns up I'll have it :-)

Are those the stock eye pieces..

Anyone else looking at that eyepiece and saying "That doesn't look right..." the astro master comes with the standard EP's (25mm & 10mm) or a 20mm imaged erecting one.  I bought an astro master new 6 months ago and got the image erecting eyepiece (20mm) and a standard 10mm.. Both had rubber eye cups and relatively small apertures..

I cant see any rubber eye cup on that photo, could this be an issue with the eyepieces?

Maybe a close up of the EP and then the EP in place may help?

Removed word?? forgot to use the "K"... apologies!!

I had an astromaster 130 a few months back, it's not a bad starter scope at all..

I didn't have any trouble with focusing but there are a few little tricks to check if its collimation or the focuser..

To check the collimation, very rough and ready, take all of the caps off, don't put an eyepiece in, look down the focuser, if the scope is somewhat in line you should be able to see a reflection of your eye in the mirrors which are all central.  The instruction book on page 28 has a picture showing this.  My Scope was new out of the box, it was a little off but not that much...

http://www.celestron.com/c3/images/files/downloads/1219957574_astromasterinst.pdf

I don't think the focuser has a lock nob on it like the skywatchers do, its a moulded plastic affair, two screws underneath to give access to the cog that turns the rack of the focuser tube. 

It may be worth checking to see if these are aligned so the focuser is actually moving.. From memory you should have a range of about 3" (guess!!).

The stock lenses, could be an issue, mine came with an image corrected 20mm and a stock 10mm, didn't care much for either but they did work and I got relatively clear images of the moon on my first night before changing them, check and see they look clean, not damaged etc...

Other than that, not really sure or experienced enough to comment...

Good luck, hope this helps!