Finally!!

[F1Bird]

After weeks of fruitless searching and in spite the best attempts of my RDF to thwart my quest I finally saw the moon and Jupiter last night! And through the telescope too! The moon was crystal clear through the 10mm eye piece. Jupiter was surprisingly clear too. Quite a big creamy coloured disc and I swear I could make out a cloud belt. I do have a question though. I definitely saw one moon just peeking out on the bottom right. However, there were 2 more, similar sized points on either side roughly equidistant from the planet. They looked a bit too far away to be moons but I they looked too small to be stars. How far to the sides would the moons be? I cant have been lucky enough to see 3 though!

[wheresthetorch?]

Yes, they can be quite a distance out - looking a bit like stars strung out on either side. Have Jupiter in the eyepiece now, but a bit hazy tonight . . .

[F1Bird]

Didn't manage to find Jupiter tonight. Took almost an hour to find the moon by which point I was almost hypothermic! Same time again tomorrow!

[swamp thing]

Sounds like another celestron astromaster??

Those finders are terrible. I'm sure they've tempted many a newbie to leave the hobby. Fancy putting something as useless as this on a starter scope.......madness

[F1Bird]

That's the one! Quite pleased with the rest of the scope though. The images are good and clear once you find something to look at! An order for a Rigel Quikfinder will be going in shortly methinks!

[swamp thing]

Too right. Nowt wrong with the main scopes.