TimeScorpion7

I used it last night and it worked great! Was able to see the Moon, Saturn, Mars, and Jupiter. I figured out the manual adjustment after alignment and also fixed the focussing issue which all helped a lot. Moving forward, whats the best way to see more detailed pictures of the planets and also seeing deep space objects? Would it be to get an eyepiece with higher focal length? I haven't used the Barlow lens yet... would that help? I guess the constraints would be the diameter of the telescope itself and the all of the Los Angeles light pollution. I must say it is a privilege to get this perspective on our existence. It really put me in my place.

Okay! Thank you for all this advice. I'm going to adjust the finderscope today and then try again tonight. I'm assuming that's what made my Star Allign off and made it so I was only seeing an inner reflection of the moon? Do you guys know if its possible to manually adjust the positioning using the motor after its been aligned? The movement arrows don't work and I feel like I'm missing something.

Yes, I'm using the supplied diagonal.

Hello, I just started using my NextStar 6SE for the first time. I got everything set up and aligned pretty well but am having trouble focussing. I started with the moon because I figured it would be easiest. I started with the 25mm eye piece and it focussed pretty well but I could only see the edge of the moon. I want to see the entire or just a bigger part of the moon. I tried moving up to the 32mm, then the 40mm and even back down to a 10mm. On all of those lenses I couldn't seem to get them in focus. I could see them getting sharper and sharper but then I hit the end of my focussing adjustment and couldn't go any further. Do you guys have any recommendations so that I can focus using the other lenses and see either a bigger part of the moon or in more detail?