Good evening!
I've had a passing interest in astronomy for quite some time now and bought
myself a telescope for christmas. Having waited until a clear night, I've
trawled into the garden and scanned the skies hoping to find Mars...
I've tracked it on HNSKY and am sure of its position, the problem comes with
the image I saw - I'm using a 'scope with a focal length of 300mm, lense
70mm diameer and eyepieces of 6mm and 20mm.
According to the figures, I'm getting magnification of 15 and 50x...
So what should I be seeing? 2 hours of scanning revealed prin-picks of light
I took to be stars... Do I need more magnification or should I be seeing
anything with these lenses?
Thanks in advance,
Terry Kay