triton76

I’ll get a picture of the focused posted the next day or two. I’ll make sure I’m not doubling up on the extensions, I didn’t think I was but I’ve been known to be wrong more than my fair share of the time :/. We should have some good skies this week so hopefully I can get out and get it sorted. Thank you all for the help.

I am in the northeast U.S., Connecticut to be exact. Light pollution isn't bad. At this point all I am trying to start with is finding planets. When I try to focus on a star, it never gets to that pinpoint, its just a white blur in the center with some blurry points coming out of it. I haven't downloaded stellarium, but will look into that this week. I have the Skywatcher 8". I have tried every combination of lens that it came with as well as trying them individually. I've got my finder pretty well aligned during the day, but haven't fined tuned it at night. If the skies clear up this week, I can do that, but weather has been tough this spring so far.

Hello all. New to the group and to the hobby. I recently purchased an 8" skywatcher dobs. I'm sure this has been covered countless time here before, but I am having focus issues. I can focus crystal clear on the moon, but everything else is just a complete blur. I have looked in the lense and see my eye reflection pretty well centered, turned the focus knob all the way both ways, focused no problem on objects during the day.... I've tried with both lenses with and without the extension, but no luck. My beginner question is, am I missing something, or am I maybe just not finding anything in the sky that I can focus on? In other words, have I only found stars and not a planet for example?