SeanP77

Hello all, I'm new here. obviously. I'm trying to get more into astronomy. While my degree is in Space Sciences, I never wandered too far down the path of astronomy much. I'm looking to fix that. While I'm usually great at research beforehand, it seems I impulsively bought a telescope this time without reading enough. I have a Celestron Explorascope 80AZ. I've used it a handful of times between the moon, planets, a couple double stars, and one fuzzy bit which definitely wasn't the Andromeda Galaxy I was trying to look at. It's lead to other purchases down the rabbit hole -- all basic stuff though -- filters and such. My issue right now is it's shaky...shakier than California even with basic adjustments like focusing. I know some of it is just learning to use a gentle hand and sticking with lower power though. I'm hoping this is something that can be fixed simply and not basically at the cost of another (hopefully better) telescope. Looking forward to what I can learn here!