First Clear Skies with New Skywatcher TelescopeI can finally use my new Skywatcher telescope that I had for Christmas, as tonight I finally had clear skies! I have the Explorer 200 model which is a 200mm Newtonian reflector.
It took a while to assemble my new Skywatcher Explorer 200 telescope because this was the first time, and I was doing it in the dark. I did not perform any polar alignments; I just roughly pointed it north.
I started by looking at the Moon, M45 Pleiades and M42 in Orion, then wandering around the sky, I found an interesting star cluster. I started taking pictures, but the moon was all I could capture. The others were unfocused or had large, blurry lines. This was not helped by the fact I was hand-holding the camera to the eyepiece.
Later, Saturn rose, and I could see it for the first time! It was amazing how clear it was, not a case of something there, and if I stretch my imagination, you could call it Saturn; you can see Saturn with its rings and moons! Unfortunately, the batteries in the camera died before I could take any pictures.
I took a few photos by holding my camera up to the eyepiece of my Skywatcher telescope.
