Newby Looking for a place to startPosted By Gary Carter |
I second Ivan & Joe's suggestion. Shoot the moon first and get comfortable imaging craters and learning to point your scope, focus the image, and play with the camera settings. Try it without and then with the barlow. Learn how to re-focus when the barlow is in and out. After you've mastered that try your hand at Jupiter. It's a challenge at first finding the planet (turning the gain up high when searching for it makes it easier to spot and center). When focusing the planet, either use one of the nearby brighter stars or a Jovian moon, (again gain up high to find and center it, then back gain down to focus it as sharp as possible, then set the gain up high to find and center the planet.)
