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Hej allihopa ! Nybörjare här som har köpt en Starblast 4.5 och har jätte mycket problem med kollimering. Sekundär spegeln går inte alls att justera mot kollimerings locket. Lite hjälp väldigt uppskattad !

Hi. On my homepage you also have a page with links to other useful stuff. How about the Island Mörkö close to Södertälje?? Maybe a relative dark place and very beautiful at daytime. There is buses there to. Take a look at gmaps or similar. Lars I shall certainly check out your website Lars ! And Mö...

Hello and congratulations to your new telescope. Maybe some sort of sports bag would do to transport it in. It might be necessary to disassemble the mount head from the tripod for transport, but it seems quite transportable. Be careful with the tube when you transport it, wrap it in something prote...

Hello again everyone ! I have finally ordered the goodies and should receive them next week. This is what I ended up buying in the end: Orion Starblast 4.5 EQ. Astrotrack motor drive for the EQ-1 mount. It was on sale as a package with the Starblast. Used Skywatcher 20mm Ultrawide 66 AFoV eyepiece f...

Hi Daya, This is one place you can go by bus to: http://astronet.se/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=11187 Use google translator. You can also ask a question at that thread if there are other who want to follow, maybe one with a car can take up others. What we do in summer? Oh... there is always a l...

Hello again Daya! The EQ1 might be wobbly also for visual use. I investigated this issue last year when I bought my 102 mm Maksutov. I had seen this model for sale with EQ1 mount but was advised not to buy it. Instead I bought a second hand Vixen Porta mount which is light but very stable. It is ho...

Hello Daya, Amateur astronomy is a fascinating hobby. The two telescopes you are describing are very different. I have never used a 4.5" Starblast but Rod Mollise has and he has written about it: http://uncle-rods.blogspot.se/2009/02/joys-of-simple-things.html http://uncle-rods.blogspot.se/201...

Hello everyone ! I am Daya and I just joined this forum. I have studied my Masters in Sweden for two years now and will start working in Södertälje in a few months time. I have always been interested in astronomy; I have some experience in the past stargazing with a 15x70 binoculars, a 70 mm refract...