Help

[Stephen Swain]

Just had a new telescope for Xmas but had a few lens with it but have no clue how to use it, plus got a lens which makes it see a lot more better but again no clue, can any one help please

[Ibbo!]

If you give more details it may help us help you.

 

What telescope is it Brand and size ?

and what numbers **mm are on the eyepeices?

[Pete Presland]

Hi Steven, welcome to SGL a photo of your scope will help with any advice. I visited Merthyr town fc in the Rhondda valley a couple of weeks back, what a place, stunning! 

[MarsG76]

Which scope kit did you get?

 

[Stephen Swain]

I got a reflector F70076 telescope 

Lens are H20mm SR4mm H12.5mm 2x Barlow lens and a 1.5x erecting eyepiece which I don't know what that is.

Don't rally matter now as my girlfriend have snapped the adjustment rod 

[M Astronomy]

The H on you eyepiece will stand for Huygens and SR for Symmetric Ramsden. Both are poor quality types of eyepieces. To maximise the potential of your scope, upgrade these eyepieces soon. Plossls are relatively cheap compared to other types and will provide much better views. Don't know how good a view you will get anyway, don't know what brand it is from the image. But if I were you, I'd still have a go and try find some objects. Try the Orion Nebula. Its not too hard to find, as long as you align you finderscope (it took me far too long to realise this duh). Hope this helps!

[Ricochet]

It is a shame that it has been broken before you have managed to use it but perhaps this is a blessing in disguise as it is clearly not fit for purpose and can be returned for a refund. I'm sure that it was not cheap and that we could point you in the direction of a better quality instrument if this one has not already put you off astronomy. 

[JOC]

What a sorry tale.  I hope it was an accident!  That scope doesn't get good reviews, but I expect it might have been possible to get it up and running.  The mount looks odd to me though I only have a Dobsonian mount, but it doesnt look like the other mounts with the big counterweights on it, but that rod just looks like something to lock it into position.  In reality it may not be needed as you tend to keep a telescope in more or less constant motion anyway.  

You would need to see if you put in an eye piece - use the one with highest mm value on it put in in the side of the telescope and pointing in the opposite direction from the sun see if you can look into the eye piece during the daytime  and focus on a distant object.  You may also need to remove some plastic covers on the sky end of the telescope.  If you can do that ut might be possible to get things up and running.

[Stephen Swain]

1 hour ago, M Astronomy said:

The H on you eyepiece will stand for Huygens and SR for Symmetric Ramsden. Both are poor quality types of eyepieces. To maximise the potential of your scope, upgrade these eyepieces soon. Plossls are relatively cheap compared to other types and will provide much better views. Don't know how good a view you will get anyway, don't know what brand it is from the image. But if I were you, I'd still have a go and try find some objects. Try the Orion Nebula. Its not too hard to find, as long as you align you finderscope (it took me far too long to realise this duh). Hope this helps!

How you going about aligning the finder scope as it is upside down

[Stephen Swain]

1 hour ago, Ricochet said:

It is a shame that it has been broken before you have managed to use it but perhaps this is a blessing in disguise as it is clearly not fit for purpose and can be returned for a refund. I'm sure that it was not cheap and that we could point you in the direction of a better quality instrument if this one has not already put you off astronomy. 

I could never be put off, I was hooked as a child and it was 40 pound the girlfriend got it for me but your right I got a refund. Got any tips about the moon as that is what I love the most