Whoa I was wondering about that I don’t have them suer tight , and like I said the worm gear travels 90% it just slips a bit near the end.Lady Fraktor wrote: ↑Sun Jan 16, 2022 7:48 pm In your last image, the plate between the focuser knobs held in place by 4 screws.
Is there a bent clip under it?
This creates the proper tension between the focuser drawtube and knobs. Do not tighten it all the way down.
The tube can jam or the helical gear teeth can break if to much tension is placed on them.
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Oh Happy Day thanks for the link !Bigzmey wrote: ↑Sun Jan 16, 2022 8:30 pmWhat Gabby says!Lady Fraktor wrote: ↑Sun Jan 16, 2022 7:48 pm In your last image, the plate between the focuser knobs held in place by 4 screws.
Is there a bent clip under it?
This creates the proper tension between the focuser drawtube and knobs. Do not tighten it all the way down.
The tube can jam or the helical gear teeth can break if to much tension is placed on them.
Also, if you would like to replace straight through finder, Celestron 51630 Star Pointer Telescope Finderscope comes with several different adapters and one of them will fit your scope.
Tomorrow no rain and I will have time to get it out side and see if I can at least get it going lining stuff up !
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Sounds like you got it right Frank. Next step would be to try to achieve focus on some daytime target: treetop, poll, chimney, etc. You can even try from within the house through a window. Use 25mmFrankskywatcher wrote: ↑Sun Jan 16, 2022 8:59 pmWhoa I was wondering about that I don’t have them suer tight , and like I said the worm gear travels 90% it just slips a bit near the end.Lady Fraktor wrote: ↑Sun Jan 16, 2022 7:48 pm In your last image, the plate between the focuser knobs held in place by 4 screws.
Is there a bent clip under it?
This creates the proper tension between the focuser drawtube and knobs. Do not tighten it all the way down.
The tube can jam or the helical gear teeth can break if to much tension is placed on them.
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Just a little suggestion with terminology so everyone understands what's being referred to. The focuser gears are called a rack and pinion. The rack is the straight part while the pinion is the little round gear on the shaft. The thing you look through to aim the scope is a finder. It might be the red dot finder you mention, or a finder scope, or even just a couple of points on the scope body for sighting like a gun sight. Those are all finders. While it is possible to have a spotting scope for a finder, the term "spotting scope" usually refers to an independent instrument used on its own. Bird watchers and target shooters use them a lot, and they are handy for us when we just want a "grab and go" unit to use.
Nevertheless, you'll have some fun with this scope.
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Thanks buddy and you are right I have a spotting scope for the range and should not be confusing calling the finder that !gregl wrote: ↑Mon Jan 17, 2022 2:53 am Hi Frank:
Just a little suggestion with terminology so everyone understands what's being referred to. The focuser gears are called a rack and pinion. The rack is the straight part while the pinion is the little round gear on the shaft. The thing you look through to aim the scope is a finder. It might be the red dot finder you mention, or a finder scope, or even just a couple of points on the scope body for sighting like a gun sight. Those are all finders. While it is possible to have a spotting scope for a finder, the term "spotting scope" usually refers to an independent instrument used on its own. Bird watchers and target shooters use them a lot, and they are handy for us when we just want a "grab and go" unit to use.
Nevertheless, you'll have some fun with this scope.
Same with the rack and pinion I gotta remember this stuff, I hope there won’t be a test !
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I took the telescope outside this morning and even though it’s only 34 here and very windy I managed to line up the finder perfectly with the scope.
I picked a road sign way down the road and “zeroed” them both in on that object !
Here’s a question I hope can be answered.
I know the image will be upside down in the finder BUT is it also supposed to be up side down in the eye piece ?
I am assuming it makes no different when looking at something ( like the moon which I assume would make no difference,right side up or up side down but I just want to be sure.
The mirrors seem to be aligned ok but without having a laser to align the Mirrors I am afraid to play around with them as they seem ok .
I could buy a laser but I’m going to be getting one anyway in March when my 10”
I guess I will find out tonight with the full moon !
I must say again thank you everyone for your help and I hope someone can answer my question about the upside down image in the scope itself before the full moon arrives tonight
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You are right, when you look at space targets it does not matter, since there is no up or down in space.
I agree, don't warry about collimation for now, try Moon, Jupiter, some stars and see how the views are.
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Hooray it works looking at the moon in detail, I feel like a school boy !!
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Thanks my friend,still on the “shake down cruise” with the telescope lol but I did look at it with my naked eye and thought to myself can’t wait to zero in on that.
I did manage to look at the moon in pretty good detail using a HI 2.5mm but I don’t know what that is relation to the other two
Thanks for the encouragement I got a long way to go but it’s awesome !
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So magnification is Focal length/eyepiece length
So 4mm is 250x
12.5mm is 80x
25mm is 40x
The Barlow one end into the focuser and the eyepiece into the other end and then all the above will be 3x more
The 4mm will probably only work on the moon its way too much for that scope
The 3x Barlow is pretty useless in that scope , may work ok with the 25mm
But you must try them all and see
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Thanks for the info I was using the 12.5 ( I thought it read H I 2.5) and that was the only one that I could “ see” with clearly the other two were just blurred, I am assuming they were too strong .Richard wrote: ↑Tue Jan 18, 2022 6:04 am The focal length of this telescope is 1000mm
So magnification is Focal length/eyepiece length
So 4mm is 250x
12.5mm is 80x
25mm is 40x
The Barlow one end into the focuser and the eyepiece into the other end and then all the above will be 3x more
The 4mm will probably only work on the moon its way too much for that scope
The 3x Barlow is pretty useless in that scope , may work ok with the 25mm
But you must try them all and see
Good luck
I also noticed that the plastic “ straight thru” view finder is a joke .
I zeroed the mirror in against the finder and of course as soon as it got dark and I started moving the scope it went right out of alignment.
I am going to get a different one as suggested by Bigsmey but having a blast with this thing,I was out there till I couldn’t feel my feet anymore.
Still a few bugs to work out but man it’s so much fun !
Thanks for your insight !
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No The H 25 should be the best so perhaps its dirty , these are very old eyepieces .965 format with has not been used for years , probably 25+ years but I may be wrong (some really cheap scopes for kinds still use them) , one can get really good ones like the Orthos etc which give a better eye relief and great view (I use one sometimes in my Tasco T10)
When you eventually get your 10 inch dobs it will use 1.25 format and will open things up for you .
I used to have a similar scope , but much older it was a Tasco the
I still have a picture of it
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Yeah I’m surprised I thought the H 25MM would work the best too it was the first one I use but everything was all blurry and I’m surprised because the one that works the best what is the H 12.5 MM.
The H25mm was blurry and so was the SR 4 MM.
I have since cleaned all of them with a Q-tip and I’ll try them again tonight but I could see the moon pretty well with the H 12 five MM not super detailed like not down into craters but could see all the media impacts in that big one down at the bottom that has the long streaks to go away from it I could see all that clearly but I couldn’t really zoom in anymore than that I guess it’s a learning curve!
I like what you do with that scope and yes I can’t wait for the 10 inch one to get here I just got a notification today they said near the end of February which is what the guy on the phone had told me when I ordered it.
I’m sure this will keep me busy and Bigzmey send me a link for a laser scope and I’ve already ordered that?
The “ straight through “plastic one with the six little set screws is useless.
I had it lined up perfectly during the day and of course at night I leaned forward bumped into it with my eye when I was trying to look for through it and it threw it off .
I zeroed it back in again on the moon itself but it was never just right,it’s just too flimsy it’s just cheap plastic junk!
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I will say I’m having a lot of fun with this gifted one and it’s helping the learning curve .
I wish I could “ zoom “ in a little more( there is already great detail ) but I’ve found that the only
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