Yippee !!!

[Chubster]

Clouds disappeared lastnight to reveal glorious sky's Well after lots of fumbling with the scope....its been a long time.... WOW :shock: :shock: M42...I couldn't believe it. Looked absolutely fantastic in 25mm but then popped in the meade 12.4 and double WOW. Very Happy the four stars in the middle pin sharp with the dust clouds all around I'm so chuffed. Looked at it for ages till it disappeared behind a house, wasnt going to stop there so i thought id have a scout around...after lots of looking eventually found M81 and 82, not fantastic it has to be said but still brilliant that I saw them. Came in extremely cold woke the missus up to tell her what I saw (note to self, don't do that again) and going to bed a happy chappy.

one thing though....did notice that the focuser was quite tricky to get right ie a bit "jumpy" if that makes sense. Is there something I can do about this or is it worth upgrading to a Crayford (is that what its called). I am wanting to get into webcam imaging very soon if this has any bearing on focuser.

Cheers Chubster

[geppetto]

Somebody had a good session

Bet you enjoyed that...

Re the focuser, best to save up for a crayford but in the

meantime, you might be able to improve yours by stripping it

down and removing the sticky grease and replacing it with good stuff..

[Chubster]

Re the focuser, best to save up for a crayford

Is there any particular model to look out for or are they all the same ??

Cheers

Chubster

[Greg]

I did a tutorial on stripping a rack and pinion focuser and improving it.....

Dead simple..Honest!

http://stargazerslounge.co.uk/index.php?topic=2291.0

There you go!

[Chubster]

Dead simple..Honest!

:shock: Looks complicated and hey crimbo coming up

Great link though

Cheers

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Firstly, try moving the focus lock screw, I've not yet regreased my Skywatcher focuser and it works fine if the screw is fiddled with correctly.

Captain Chaos