Neil H

Ok that will be nice to see ,as I am new there are lots of WOW moments

Thanks for the info they may be to low as I have houses in that direction but I will give it a go

Thank you these are the 2 , I most want to see it may not be good as light pollution in that direction, I see it shows 5 am so I will get up at 4 and set up 

You Hi can you give a newbie a clue of were to look is it South , South West 

Hi Tom welcome to the best forum 

Neil Luton

Ok thanks I am off to Collimation street lol 

What size hole did you make in the cap

Thanks I will download and read it 

Thanks for that I do have a Cheshire with cross hairs , and I am going to make a Collimation cap and see how that looks in the secondary

Hi everyone I hope your all well , I have a Collimation question , I am fairly good at Collimation but 3 telescopes into this hobby I have only once had a star test give the right feed back and got the concentric circles and that was the SW 150/750 The new Telescope Orion Optics VX8L 200/1200 gives me a sharp image but the star test does not come right what I get is a large circle with the spider in the middle and what looks like skinny worms in the circle any ideas  ?, I would love to get this right if what I have now is wrong ?

Have you got an electronics repair place near you they should be able to fix it 

Hi I don't know that power pack but yes lots do have a glass fuse inside it would not hurt to take a look but be careful some power caps with hold voltage even after unit is off 

Hi Andy the red dot will stay in the middle of the glass at the front of you put a tube on the end to shield it from the light outside a little the red dot should be visible 

Line up the telescope on a target about 1/4 of a mile if you can then adjust the red dot finder so the dot is on the target you can see in the eyepiece , if the red dot finder won't adjust far enough you have to loosen the mount that it sits on  move it a little then tighten up refit red dot finder so the red dot finder will adjust to the target  

Hi and welcome that's the best birthday present ever, enjoy the new hobby 

This is the best forum ever 

The polar alignment app is good and it's only £3.09 

polaralinerpro

Hi I just looked on my polar alignment app it shows you to put Polaris in between the 2 lines on the circle 

The white dot is Polaris at 12.35 

Down loading now can't wait to read it .Thanks for the heads up 

Hi you need to calibrate the polar scope first , after its set up right you can use the hour and date rings , you rotate DA axis so the time and date line up this will then put small polar circle in the right position for you to line the mount to , but now days it's easy to look at a polar app which will show were Polaris should be , when I went out tonight Polaris was between 1/4 past and 20 past 12 which is top centre just like a clock face so I rotated the DA till the small circle was in the right position then adjusted the mount till Polaris was in the circle good enough for visual 

Hi Tony  welcome I am new too 6 months and 3 telescopes  later lol , I was going dobs but most of the dark sites I use need a tripod to get things level  so what I have is an Orion Optics VX8L on a HEQ5 go-to mount , the telescope before was a skywatcher 150/750 F5 , buying a telescope is a big thing and you need to get it right so ask loads of questions ,post links to what your looking at and the members on here will give there answers on how good it is 

All my telescope are second hand first one was ok , the skywatcher 150/750 cost me £120 and was nice , the VX8L cost when new over £1300 I got it for £600 so I got a lot for very little money so was worth going second hand

Must  say it's a great app 

5 minutes ago, wookie1965 said:

I have the Herschel lists in pdf format tried a few of them from home but I am blighted by light pollution so its a case of doing them from a dark site out of the question in the current climate.

So when I do go out its clusters and double and multiple stars, its a sad state of affairs when you cannot see the milkyway from home you dont get the awe in young eyes when they look up these days which is a shame.

Hi Paul can you email that list please 

Hi guys thanks again you have it sorted for me and thanks Paul for phone support

I really don't know why just by changing the focuser I had to move the main mirror forward  the new focuser has the same travel as the old one , and I put mirror back now it came out 

On 15/03/2020 at 21:34, pblackwell said:

How did you mount your phone in your dove tail? A phone bracket or something or tape or something?

So I’d have my phone somehow on my dove tail, PA it, then slide my tube into the dove tail, is that how it’s done?

Hi 2 small bolts at the bottom the phone sits on them so you know it level and an elastic band on top part of phone 

shame there not a flat roof you could get on , the only way is drive to a better location of that's possible

Have you look at the light pollution map to see were a dark site is from you 

https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/#zoom=4&lat=5759860&lon=1619364&layers=B0FFFFFTFFFFFFFF

Hi mate if you remove the focuser shaft that's the part with the knobs on then pull out the tube , your most likely find the felt strips are worn out , stick some new felt on to the tube this should remove some of the play