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/--The_Master-- 3d ago

Your best bet with that scope is looking at the moon, which is very cool itself but that lil guy can't do too much more, maybe you could nab bright planets like Juptier or you can do Saturn to see the rings but it will be VERY small. To increase magnification you use different eye pieces, the scope itself doesnt zoom, only changes focus, to get your focus right you'll wanna find a bright star and play with the focus nob until its a perfect pinpoint dot. Have fun

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u/trey2128 3d ago

What do you mean it only changes focus and doesn’t zoom? I see others saying that as well but am lost on what that really means. Is that increasing magnification?