Steamer Phill

Not a gift someone was giving it away for free on shpock and seemed to good to pass up.

I bought the c8 and was given the refractor for free.

C8 on a cg5 and a 70mm bresser skylux refractor

Faversham but I don't mind travelling a bit

Hi everyone I'm wondering if there is anyone near me (Kent,UK) who could show me some basics in using my scopes as I'm a complete novice.

I did look at the focal reducer thinking it would be a good comprise before looking at getting a 2nd scope but that's for the future as I'm still struggling to get to grips with the c8. On the bright side though I checked the price of q turret set again today and they've gone back upto £259 again so feeling pretty pleased with £127 I paid ?.

Thanks for the help John I decided to buy the q turret set as a good starting set as the ones that came with the scope are mostly the basic celestron ep's which I've read aren't the greatest also a copy of turn left at orion?.

Thanks for advice so far, forgot to mention my scope has a 2 inch W O diagonal so would it be better to buy 2 inch eyepieces? I apologise in advance if these are silly questions but I'm very new to this but determined to get into it.

Hi all, I was looking at getting myself some eyepieces and have found the baader q turret set for a good price (£127) and i was wondering if these would be a good first set of eyepieces for my c8?

I'm right handed and and struggle with both at the moment lol ?

Ah I was wondering if it was supposed to illuminated or not I'll have to try the led light trick and other tips thanks everyone.

Yeah it's the mount I'm struggling with I get it so it's pointing north then once it's dark I can't see any of the alignment marks in the scope so I'm basically guessing where to adjust polaris to

I'm using a celestron advanced gt mount and a celestron c8

Well had a mixed result tonight I still don't seem to be able to get the scope to point in the right direction. I'm pretty sure it's the polar alignment where I'm getting it wrong. I don't seem to be able to see any of the cross hairs etc and polaris is quite faint in my back garden due to light pollution I assume. In the end I just released the locks and pointed it at Jupiter by hand and was very happy to see Jupiter and three moons ?

Finally got a clear night ahead still waiting for pay day to get a dew sheild and was wondering if there are any tips to prolong the onset of dew? I was going to wait until the street lights go out then polar align the mount without scope then bring scope out when I'm ready to start alignment?