Hi all, I briefly tried out my telescope for the first time last night just to check it's set up and working ok. I couldn't see [removed word] all, everything was out of focus no matter how much I turned the focuser - turned out I hadn't fully extended the telescope!, So tried again today with a 10mm eyepiece and got a nice view of Jupiter and 3 of its moons, and even could make out Jupiter's belts.
Now that I know that I can actually see things through the telescope, I'd like to make sure the collimation is correct to get the best views I can. As this is not something I've done before, I'm a bit nervous about adjusting anything unless I know it's definitely out of collimation, so I've taken a couple pictures with no eyepiece, and with Cheshire eyepiece. From the research I've done, it doesn't look obviously out of collimation like in some of the example pictures I've seen, but I thought I'd check with you guys who have been doing this a lot longer than myself.
View with no eyepiece in focuser: (the primary mirror is actually more centred in the secondary than it looks in the photo due to angle of my camera phone)
View with Cheshire collimating eyepiece:
And a picture of my telescope for anyone interested:
Thanks
Adam