Super Plossl Telescope
Help setting up a Meade EXT 90PE Telescope with UHTC (stock 26mm super plossl) please?
I’ve tried for two nights in a row to use my new Meade EXT 90PE and am having no luck at all. It runs through the auto level and align and I still can’t see anything but blur. The manual is no help (it’s written in English, but I don’t understand anything it says) and the input to my computer is a serial connection which my computer doesn’t have.
I am a complete novice at this (obviously), but would very much like to learn. Unfortunately, I have yet to find any clubs or groups in my area and am reaching out to the good people here on Answers.
Is there someone out there that can walk me through the basics of this telescope?
Any help would be wonderful, thank you.
I’ve never heard of a Meade EXT 90PE, are you sure that’s the model number? Perhaps it’s a Mead ETX 90AP?
Meade offers instructional videos for the ETX series scopes at
http://www.meade.com/educational/etx%20videos/index.html
As for seeing just a blur, you can always manualy point the scope at an easily visible object, such as the moon, and focus it slowly until you get a sharp image. Then try it on Saturn or a star cluster. It’s always good to focus on a star…the name of the game is “how sharp can that point of light get?” Deep space objects, such as the Andromeda Galaxy, will almost always look like a blur in a telescope, so a star is useful to gauge if the blurryness is the scope or the object.
P.S. try asking this same question under the astronomy catagory or in the forums on www.astromart.com
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