General Ray
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1.25" Cheshire Collimator with Cross Hair Sight Tube 
, what is a Cheshire Collimator you ask
It is a device that you put into your focusing tube on your telescope to aligned the Secondary mirror with the Primary mirror on your scope so they focus and zero in on the target and hopefully give you a clear image through the eyepiece and not a blurry one, I know, this makes no sense to you but me either at this time also
So you think dialing in a DFX or a Explorer is tough, get a Telescope and you will know what confusion really is
My telescope is a beinger telescope and I am thankfull for that, I can learn on this scope for a year or two then maybe jump after one of those big dogs, but man they ain't cheap I'm telling ya
My hopes are to learn the basics from using this telescope and in time buy one of them high end scopes that look like a cannon at the battle of Gettysburg. There is so much to learn but I have been spending alot of time lurking on a forum called Cloudy Nights, and man these folks are pretty bright when it comes to telescopes and space. If your gonna look at a star many millions of miles away you better know what your doing or you will miss the beauty of it.
I am learning words and terms like these but right now have no idea what they are taking about,
Film Astrophotography
DSLR & Digital Camera Astro Imaging & Processing
Solar System Imaging & Processing
Refractors and Reflectors
Lasers, Eyepieces, Barlows and Filters
optical axis
focal length
I'll tell ya folks, you should see some of the pictures that come from these people and their scopes and cameras, heck, they even have scopes that you can hook a cam recorder up to, alittle out of my price range through, hahaha. I have e-mailed some of these folks that have taken pictures of Mars and Saturn and her rings and they all tell me the same thing, Ray, you learn your basics and do your research and read and read and read again, how cool is that, they answered me and told me it's like when you got your first detector, you learn to walk first then run later, ha, I told them I metal detect for history
All were pretty cool with my metal detecting and asked questions and told me yes Ray, you can still hunt in space using a telescope, I have so much to learn but just like I did on the Whites forum where Vernon led me to after reading his "Running with the Bulls" story in W & E I have to go slowly at first, kinda peck my way into the group and read and read again to get those basics down.
The biggest thing that I learn was just because the sky is clear at night does not mean that you will be able to see into deep space, there are waves out there in space that do some crazy stuff and block your view, ha, great, so much to learn
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, what is a Cheshire Collimator you ask It is a device that you put into your focusing tube on your telescope to aligned the Secondary mirror with the Primary mirror on your scope so they focus and zero in on the target and hopefully give you a clear image through the eyepiece and not a blurry one, I know, this makes no sense to you but me either at this time also
So you think dialing in a DFX or a Explorer is tough, get a Telescope and you will know what confusion really is
My telescope is a beinger telescope and I am thankfull for that, I can learn on this scope for a year or two then maybe jump after one of those big dogs, but man they ain't cheap I'm telling ya
My hopes are to learn the basics from using this telescope and in time buy one of them high end scopes that look like a cannon at the battle of Gettysburg. There is so much to learn but I have been spending alot of time lurking on a forum called Cloudy Nights, and man these folks are pretty bright when it comes to telescopes and space. If your gonna look at a star many millions of miles away you better know what your doing or you will miss the beauty of it.
I am learning words and terms like these but right now have no idea what they are taking about,
Film Astrophotography
DSLR & Digital Camera Astro Imaging & Processing
Solar System Imaging & Processing
Refractors and Reflectors
Lasers, Eyepieces, Barlows and Filters
optical axis
focal length
I'll tell ya folks, you should see some of the pictures that come from these people and their scopes and cameras, heck, they even have scopes that you can hook a cam recorder up to, alittle out of my price range through, hahaha. I have e-mailed some of these folks that have taken pictures of Mars and Saturn and her rings and they all tell me the same thing, Ray, you learn your basics and do your research and read and read and read again, how cool is that, they answered me and told me it's like when you got your first detector, you learn to walk first then run later, ha, I told them I metal detect for history
All were pretty cool with my metal detecting and asked questions and told me yes Ray, you can still hunt in space using a telescope, I have so much to learn but just like I did on the Whites forum where Vernon led me to after reading his "Running with the Bulls" story in W & E I have to go slowly at first, kinda peck my way into the group and read and read again to get those basics down.
The biggest thing that I learn was just because the sky is clear at night does not mean that you will be able to see into deep space, there are waves out there in space that do some crazy stuff and block your view, ha, great, so much to learn
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might attempt something like this.