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Old 14-June-2008, 12:14 AM
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Do you have a photo tripod to mount it on, though? If not, you should try fixing a water bottle beneath the legs of the mount, or at least something to give it more mass. Don't get too frustrated with it if it doesn't work well.

I recommend you stick with the lowest power eyepiece, the 20mm. A Huygens or Symmetrical Ramsden is forgivable at low focal lengths.

Some objects out right now that I recently viewed at 12x through a tiny 62mm Cometron, decent targets for your scope:

M13 in Hercules should be decent.
So should M81 and M82.
I think the Whirlpool and M101 wouldn't be visible in any small scope because of the Moon's illumination.
The Moon right now is obviously a good target.
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