falcrum

Welcome aboard! May the ideal observing conditions be with you

Actually I do have 3x barlow lens. When I use it with 20mm eyepiece(for eye relief) it's 90x magnification. When i look at @DaveL59's comment, now I will focus on deep sky objects since my telescope is more suitable to observe them.

I have thought about buying reflector but when I researched I've seen that it requires mainteanance unlike refractors so I have bought 50 az. If I knew sgl before buying it I'd definitely ask experienced people like you for advise.

You may be right but as you stated, larger exit pupil means less magnification. I think 50 az wasn't a very good choice but still I'm happy to have that.On the other hand, It would be better to go for a better telescope at least sth like 60 az.

Thank you for your answer. I know it's a cheap and beginner(just like me) telescope. To tighten that I will need to find a nut driver then. But I am still not sure if tightening will fix the problem.

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Thank you for your answer @jonathan Are there other things that I should consider while looking for a heavier and stable mount? And how can I know that mount is compatible with my telescope?

As stated in the title, the wind shakes my telescope too much. It directly shakes the tube while tripods are still. Naturally because of winds I lose the focused objects and can't get a stable view. I know my telescope(50 az nearly 2.7 kg) is light. So do you have any advice rather than taping sth heavy to the tube? Thank you.

Thanks for previous answers. I am still curious about the first question which is : Is it normal that I wasn't be able to focus when the barlow is between diagonal and eyepiece?

Hello everyone, Firstly I'd like to say that it's great to be a member of a site that has lots of experienced astronomers. I have just started to use celesteron 50 az(refractor 600mm f/12 eyepieces 20 12.5 4) but have some problems about its 3x barlow lens. I tried to put barlow between star diagonal and eyepiece but in all eyepieces it was very blurry and impossible to focus. Then when i put barlow between tube and diagonal i was able to focus it but with 4mm eyepiece even the properly focused image wasn't very sharp, it was a little blurry. So my questions are: "Is it normal that I wasn't be able to focus when barlow is between diagonal and eyepiece? " and "With barlow used the image was sharp with 20mm and 12.5 mm eyepiece but it wasn't very sharp with 4mm eyepiece as i mentioned before. So is it normal and what's the reason behind that? Can we say that when magnification is increased the barlow will make image more blurry? Thank you for replying.