Evening All,
So I brought the wife the Sky-Watcher P150i WiFi and we now have it up and running but a few questions
1) Do we always have to start the telescope due north and at zero degrees before aligning? (aligning with two stars goes well btw when we do, it’s just the first part of aligning north is a tad annoying as scope throws off compass)
2) Wobble and focusing are a nightmare. Once the object has been located, you try and focus on it. With a 25mm it’s doable just, but the 10mm is horrible and don’t even think of putting a Barlow in. Not only does it bounce around like a buckeroo but trying to get a nice clean focus is almost Impossible. I wonder if the focuser needs to be removed and given a proper clean and degrease because it seems stiffer then I would expect a focuser to be? Wobbling I guess we can’t do much about this as I am on concrete.
Love the telescope but the wobble and focuser are a bit of a kick.
2b) Switching from lens to lens means often having to realign the scope slightly, is this normal?
3) Jupiter is very bright and we struggle to make out bands. I have a few filters like a moon glow, red and yellow but I still don’t see the bands. Moons yes, bands no, and that’s with the jumping around.
4) Andromeda Galaxy looks just like a dusty clump. This normal?
Thoughts and comments welcome, thank you in advance