Hello, All - This is my first post. Apologies in advance for both the length of this post, and if I ask any questions that have repeatedly been asked by others in the past. I recently got a new dob and was hoping for some advice from you guys.
Some background... I had a very cheap telescope as a kid and I never really enjoyed it as it was so difficult to see anything. I recently decided to give telescopes another shot, but wanted to get something fairly decent so I could really enjoy the experience. After doing a bunch of research, I settled on the Apertura AD8.
After two nights with it, I have two big gripes.
1. It moves around a lot. Once I lock in on something (mostly the moon in the past two nights), the scope tends to easily shift, even when I tighten all tensioners as much as possible. Is this normal for a dob? Is it something I need to get used to? Can I remedy this in any way?
2. The viewing experience through the eyepieces isn't very good. I don't easily see through the eyepieces and I have to keep trying to find a sweet spot to position my eye into. Even when I have a good view, I can't really settle on it and see it for too long. I hope I'm articulating this correctly... It just seems impossible to steadily look through the eyepiece precisely where I should. I mostly just see black even if the moon is perfectly filling the lens. Am I seeing the edges of the lens...? I don't know. This was the exact problem I had as a kid, and I'm frustrated it's happening again. I had assumed that was happening before because I had a cheap scope. Is there a proper method of actually looking through an eyepiece that I need to get accustomed to? Or should I buy some higher end eyepieces? I'm currently using the two that the scope came with, which are a 1.5" 9mm Plossl eyepiece and a 2" 38mm 60 degree eyepiece.
Thanks in advance for the replies!