First successful use

[cutepetgroomer]

Okay I used the 20mm in my 3x barlow and I could make out every crater including the darkened ones

[rwilkey]

Hi buddy, that sounds good, the Moon is one of the best targets for any telescope in my opinion.  Never ceases to fascinate.

[Steve-G]

I agree, it's always first on my list of targets. I've probably spent more time looking at the moon than anything else & it never seems to lose that "wow" factor.

[southernman]

Well done. As others have stated the Moon provides almost endless possibilities for observing. In my opinion having a map of the moon at hand to help identify the areas your observing enhances the experience further.

Peter

[ronl]

It's so good when you get a closer look at our Moon, my favorite target, as Peter said

get a Moon map, the sky and telescope mirror image map is superb, it's good to find

what you are observing on the map, and you can keep a log of your nights observing,

keep enjoying our wonderful Moon. 

[todd8137]

I love the Moon and never get bored of it every time I view it's wow weeeeeeee

Pat

[Paul M]

I'm no Moonographer (made up word) and generally curse it more than look at it but when I do it never fails to impress!!

It's like so many other telescope targets, the more you look the more you see.

Something there for everyone.

[cutepetgroomer]

I agree but my attempts tonight got thwarted by a neighbor above dumping Cheetos on my scope and eye pieces, I felt livid because I know they saw me setting up . Hopefully tomorrow will be better.

[PeterCPC]

What weird behaviour! Can't you set up somewhere else more private.

Moon is fantastic and never ceases to have the wow factor.

Peter

[Paul M]

I agree but my attempts tonight got thwarted by a neighbor above dumping Cheetos on my scope and eye pieces, I felt livid because I know they saw me setting up . Hopefully tomorrow will be better.

I had to google "Cheetos", it's not as bad as I thought....

Still, not nice neighbours if they knew you were there

[cutepetgroomer]

Unfortunately I cannot set up somewhere more private. And yes quite wierd behavior. I was thinking of setting up near my mothers who lives across the way , nobody would actually be above anyways.