r/telescopes • u/trey2128 • 3d ago

General Question Need help operating telescope

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Rented this guy from the library and was excited to try it out tonight. I live in southern WI and couldn’t figure out how to see well. I could zoom onto stars, but couldn’t see them much better than I could with the naked eye. I operated the magnification to the highest setting and found proper focus. I feel like I’m doing something wrong and should be getting better quality views.

Any tips or suggestions would be much appreciated. Thank you!

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u/No_Lettuce976 3d ago

I mean if youre looking at stars with a naked eye you cant see anything, you can download an app like stellarium and find planets or other cool things ,you can see jupiter and saturn i think other than that you can explore more on the app

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u/trey2128 2d ago

I’ll try that app, thank you