Shore Diver

I'm thinking I just have a blurry telescope...

So if the baffle isn’t perfectly straight, what will happen? Could that be the cause of the blurriness???

As far as I can tell, this is what is causing the sliver of light. The tube that runs through the inside of the body is slightly skewed so that it does not perfectly align with the silver reflective dot on the front of the lens. Is this a problem? Or fixable? Forgive my lack of terminology, but I don’t know all these parts yet...

My first post was asking if it needs to be collimated. This post is after I took a look at it and nothing matched what the illustrations showed and made me wonder if it’s something that may actually be broken or not after realizing that I can’t really collimate it

Really dumb question, but could it not being collimated properly cause these focus issues??

I just bought it and last night was the first time I tried it. On the moon, it looks decent. But when going to Jupiter and Saturn, I get bright blobs. I tried different eyepieces to make sure it wasn’t them. I figured I’d try collimating it. I remove the eyepiece, and when I look down, it seems there are two black circles that are not aligned. I figure they need aligning. The manual shows me totally different diagrams than what my telescope actually is! I don’t see the screws they’re talking about. Only two things recessed to the right of the eyepiece that look like Allen screws. And nothing on the other side. Here are three pictures. the 3rd one is what i see looking down the eyepiece tube. The blue is from aiming it at my pc. You can see that the black circles aren't aligned very well. I don't believe that white sliver at the bottom left should be visible. Anyone have a clue??? Btw, it’s a Meade NG90 Maksutov Cassegrain.

I have my Telescope in the garage. It's the same temperature as it is outside, as the windows and back door are open during the day. The windows are open all night, so there is never any sudden temp change. Also, i tried focusing on the moon first. Not as sharp as i would like it to be, but still sharp. Just to make sure it's not the eyepiece, i tried the 10mm one from my Celestron Astromaster 70. Same thing. Sorry about not putting in the specs of the Meade! here's a link to all the info: Meade NG90

So, I finally got to try out my new Meade NG90 Maksutov Cassegrain telescope tonight. My excitement quickly went downhill after putting in the 9mm lens and looking at Jupiter. I couldn’t get it to focus at all. The best I could do was get it to be a small blob instead of a spread out blob. When I switched to the 26mm eyepiece, it was better, but noticeably not as clear as my 70mm Celestron. The bands around Jupiter were not distinguishable. I could see the ring around Saturn with the 26, but it wasn’t very sharp. The 9mm was awful. So, any advice on how to collimate this thing, or should I let a professional do it?

I wanted a cheap buy decent computerized telescope as a companion to the Dobsonian I ordered. Found this for $300. What do you guys think? https://www.meade.com/starnavigator-ng-90mm-maksutov-telescope.html

I ended up buying the $3 version of sky safari to see how it is. So far, so good! I’ll probably upgrade it. It’s on my iPhone 6, so I’ll have to see which version is compatible with it, and which one will be better for me. Thanks for the info!

Hello all! First post! I just ordered a Dobsonian telescope. No computer. I see a lot of apps on my iPhone store to find planets. I tried a few free ones and they were not terribly accurate. Can anyone recommend some good ones???