Swoop1 Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 Last night was a bit of a wake up call. After the joy of my first session I thought I would get out for a short stint last night. Venus was visible as I rode home so I set up the scope on getting home then sorted myself out. Before dinner I went out and lined up on Venus. The 25mm EP gave me a discernible disc so I swapped to the 10mm and managed to centre in the EP. The disc was more prominent but, as I had failed to fit a filter, the magnitude made focus difficult. I thought I would try then with the Barlow so fitted it. After the relative ease in which I found M31 the night before, I thought reacquiring Venus would be easy- more fool me. One of my problems is that the site I have to observe that sector of sky has a street lamp about 15 yards away and, at 1800 last night, directly below Venus (about 2 palm widths below- not got the hang of degrees of declination yet). Combined with clumsy gross adjustments, I failed miserably. Hey ho. All part of the learning experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockystar Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 2 hours ago, Swoop1 said: Hey ho. All part of the learning experience. Indeed it is, at least you got out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LukeSkywatcher Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 Better to have tried and failed rather than not to have tried. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laudropb Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 A properly aligned finder will make locating targets much easier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astro Imp Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 You often learn more from failures than successes, as previous post aligning finder scope is key to easily finding targets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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