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Just saying hello,
Always been interested in astronomy but have only now (at the age of 60) bought my first telescope. It’s from the “brockenhaus” for CHF80 and is a Bresser 45-5000 Type RET-50.
114mm mirror and 1000mm Focal length eyepieces H6mm and HI 25mm, moon and sun filters.
I will spend a few days setting it up, tripod and equatorial mount is done and balanced, but the photocopy of the manual is in German and very faded and difficult to read/translate. So a link to an English manual would be a good start .... Anybody?
I’m sure I will need to align the viewfinder and do some collimating.
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Hi again, thanks for the welcome everyone.
As advised I have thrown out the sunfilter, it was cracked - an old floppy disk would have been more effective!
i have read another SGL thread on the RET50 and everything thing mentioned there is true. (So I may end up buying something better)
The viewfinder is misaligned and seems impossible to adjust, I think someone superglued the screws, but at least I know by how much and where to aim.
Moon looks ok, but can’t seem to focus on a star clearly, and don’t want to try collimating until I can find a manual for this specific type.
I look forward to reporting any progress if we ever get clear skies now the snow has arrived in Switzerland.