Having a hard time with this scope. Looking at Jupitar and it's barely visible through the scope, looks like a star still. Doing something wrong?
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What is the strength of the eye piece? I remember when I looked at Jupiter through the XT8, I could clearly see some of the cloud bands on Jupiter along with the four largest moons.
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There are several issues that could be here, depending upon your experience with telescopes and such. First question: could you see the moons in a more or less straight row on one side or the other of Jupiter? If not, it would seem you possibly aligned on a bright star like Castor or Pollux rather than Jupiter? The finder has to be aligned to the mail optical tube on a real object. I find the Moon easier as you can always find it by shadow, glare or just plain luck. Have someone hold the image in the scope while you tweak the finder knobs to get the red dot centered on some feature of the moon and have that feature centered in the eyepiece field of view. If you could see the moons, but no detail on the planet there could be a couple of issues. The more complex of which is that if your eyes are like mine, I need a bigger image to pick out detail. Yet observing buddies can see plenty of detail in small images. Go figure I guess. If you were using the eyepiece with the longer focal length number, the one with the scope might be a 20 or 25-mm I forget. Then once you have the planet centered or off to the leading edge of the field, switch to the higher power or the lower focal length eyepiece and refocus. Hope this is helpful!
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Well there are two possible problems. One is that you may have such a small magnification, such as anything smaller than a 50 mm lens, that you are too far away to actually discern any detail. Another problem that you may have is that you forgot to loosen the knob that locks the focuser. This is located near the bottom of the place that you put your lens in. If it is tight then when you turn the focuser, nothing will happen which would lead to blurry views. Hope this helped! Clear Sky's
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I just got one and couldn't see anything either. When I took it out of the box there was a 3" lens that was separate. I thought it was an extra. Turns out that it needed to be placed in the end of the telescope. If this is your case, unscrew the plastic ring at the large end of the telescope (remove the sun shade piece first) place the lens on top of the other lens and replace the plastic ring. There should be 2 lenses at the end. Once I did that I could see great! Start out with the largest eyepiece (25mm) to find objects easily.
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Sorry, I can't help you. I bought the scope for my grandkids. Don't know anything about them, 'cause I'm a Grammy and Grammies don't know things like that! Good Luck.
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You can see through the scope although it has no magnification. It only acts as a sight.
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Try remounting the scope, reset it to factory, and adjust to your preference. If that doesn't not help I would ask, are you breathing before you pull trigger because when you fire your pulling down and naturally the gun wants to follow.
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You are not doing anything wrong. To see the shape, you need more magnification. I got a Barlow 2x shorty to go with mine which doubles the magnification. That will enlarge Mars so it's a bigger dot.
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You can see them fairly clear, i'll put a link at the bottom of my comment to a guy who takes photo's with his 4se. Keep in mind, when you're looking through the scope, the view is not as fuzzy as his photos and video. You can't magnify much more than 150x with the 4se but you can see Saturn with it's rings, and Jupiter very clearly. I'm not sure what the other person is talking about the motors jumping, mine tracks beautifully. This is a great starter scope, but, I also agree there are way better ones out there. For a first scope just to get you familiar with the sky and Astronomy, the 4se works great. If you're like me though, you'll probably want something bigger and faster within a year. I'm actually thinking about selling my 4se to step up to a much higher end scope for Astrophotography. May I ask where you're from? https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7LIfGL0G50jj7sP_aktkHA
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Not realistically able for Pluto. I have a 4" 102mm scope and the faintest i've seen was a star at a measured 9.2. and i wasn't sure it was there at first. Pluto is a reflection target. Need 10" and some good skies.
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My ATN has no magnification. In perfect conditions (full moon) I'm comfortable taking shots at stationary targets at 50 yards. Using a 980nm IR illuminator works well. Source is invisible to the human eye but the scope sees it well.
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Make sure you take the scope apart and tighten the set screw. Mine didn't come set from factory.
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You could try and shim the scope. (Put a very thin spacer between the ring and scope) or try switching the rings back for front and vice versa. Or if it is new just contact crosman thier customer sevice is great. They will replace it but try the others first so u know if it's the scope or the rings. Hope that helps
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I could not zero in with mine. Returned back to supplier. Amazon and the supplier provided timely response. Not much luck with lasers. Looks like scope and red dots are much easier to mount and reliable.
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Make Sure Your arrow rest is centered perfectly to the string. Can You see the sight clearly through the peep?? When i Shot low, my anchor point where i put the release on my face was too high thus pushing the arrow down. that could be it. but make sure everything else is also in order.
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Get the celestron powertank (dont forget to charge it once a month), i also bought the celestron eyepiece set, great set and a good case with it. Also use the two star align, three atar doesnt work, and google for how to set it up as you must put the alignment stars in the middle of the eyepiece then move it left down up right (as the star looks in the eye piece), then click to set it as an alignment star. It will then track all night usually after one quick up movement once aligned. It is a brilliant scope, good luck!
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I returned mine, you could see the dot fine but ran through almost a full box of 9mm and still couldn't get it adjusted correctly, they were good about taking it back but after the bad experience I decided to go a different path.......good luck
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Start with lower magnification eyepiece(20mm). During the day practice on focusing on large objects. It's also the way to align the red dot finder. I bought this scope for my grandson . He loves it
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Bill, yours is a dud. Mine is rather accurate and isn't plagued by your technical issues. I can find galaxies that aren't visible to the naked eye with it quickly. That said, I actually don't own a Celestron telescope currently but instead those from other manufacturers. However, that isn't because I've experienced serious quality issues with Celestron scopes in the past.