edjbrown

Hello everyone, thanks in advance as always. So I just recieved a rigel quickfinder, I wanted something like this because I live in an area of reasonably high light pollution and I had found it a nightmare to find anything that wasn't the brightest of objects with the 6x30 finder that came with my scope. Now, I've not tested it on anything astronomical yet as it's been cloudy as hell so I don't know if that makes the difference, but testing it every other way (looking into the distance at night and just in dim rooms) I find it very hard to see two perfect circles as I thought I would. In fact what I see tends to be two very thick, almost scratchy lines, like someone tried to make two circles by drawing (poorly I might add) again and again over the same circle. The odd part is I cant photograph this, through a camera lens I see two perfect, clear circles so for this reason I assume there is not a fault with the device. The attached image is an "artist's" impression of what I see but I think it gets the idea across. I do wear glasses and for a moment putting them on can make a difference but not always. I have also asked other people to look through it and they too see thick scratchy lines. So, is this normal? Am I doing something wrong? Or is this simply the nature of the Rigel? It does seem fairly inaccurate with such thick, blurry lines to look through. Many thanks again, Ed