Spock Junior

Hello Everyone. I have got a couple of photos to share of my inherited Newtonian Fullerscope. Looking at the detail I feel rather ashamed that I have let, at least the mounting, get rather shabby. It appears to be an alloy which has resisted the weather better than perhaps a steel would have done. I expect you can suggest a restoration technique to preserve it into the future. Keeping it under cover would be helpful of course but I have only managed to wrap it in a plastic sheet these past few years. I have the rather 'basic' motor separately but we have never tried to connect it and I can see that there needs to be some work done on all the linkages to ever get that to work. I have the large mirror safely in doors ready for when I can confidently choose an eye piece and start gazing. I have 4 eyepieces named respectively: K - 6mm, K - 12.5, K - 25mm and Orth - 9mm. I'm not sure which one I used last to see very good detail of just a quarter of the moon one night. I have only really had success with the one lens and this is what I was hoping to have help with so that I can work out how to use them effectively and open up my eyes to the astro-view (!) Thanks for your interest and I look forward to your collective further advice.

Hi. I’m very new to telescopes but have inherited a Fullerscopes item which I’m sure will be fascinating to use properly. Ive actually had it in my garden for a few years but only tried to use it a couple of times. I have just spent on having the mirrors resilvered which we now fantastic. One big question is to ask what lens should I be using to view stars? I had managed to to see a great view of part of the moon with one of my lenses but the stars seem no nearer with that lens. Can anyone please provide a duffers guide to getting started? My scope has a 10” mirror at the bottom and an elliptical one which angles the view out to a side lens . I’m afraid I don’t even know what this type of scope is called . Any help will be welcomed . Thank you