Hello Everyone,
So I am brand new to Astronomy and my dad gave me his old Orion XT8. I'll post some pictures of some of the stuff I have with it that he gave me. I have absolutely no idea what any of this stuff does. I've done a bit of research but i think i'm too dumb to understand what does what. Is there a dumbed down version or does anyone use Discord on here my username is LiquidSn8ke #7350 that can kinda give me a rundown of what everything does. I have a Cannon T3i and I tried to take some pictures of the Moon and I tried to move it to the Andromeda Galaxy but I couldn't seem to get anything from either of them. I think I was able to see it with some of the lenses but Everytime I tried to use my camera i just got nothing but blurryness or nothing just black. It seemed like it was out of focus or in terms of deep sky objects it was just black or idk i couldn't focus in on stars or anything. Not really sure what i'm doing. Thanks! Sorry if i'm just being an uber noob as I just don't really understand any of this haha he just kinda dumped it on me and was like good luck! Atleast I found this forum but alot of the jargon just kinda confuses me.