Re: Newbie- Saturn looks same through scope as with naked eye?

Finding planets when you've never done it before is something that can easily go
wrong, especially if you're unfamiliar with the sky, something the more
experienced observer did go through but it happened so long ago that they forgot
what a trial and error process it was.

If you did nothing to the telescope except moving it from the Moon to Saturn,
then based on your description of the view you had the wrong object. Remember,
there are other things up there other than the Moon and Saturn, namely stars,
lots of stars, and in Saturn's case lots of bright stars near it, relatively
speaking. For beginners, finding something up in the sky can be compared at
times to a road trip where you're trying to get from one town to another, when
you don't know where you are, you don't know where you're currently heading in
your car, and you don't know where North is on your map.

Good Luck !
--- Dave
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Pinprick holes in a colorless sky
Let inspired figures of light pass by
The Mighty Light of ten thousand suns
Challenges infinity, and is soon gone

david.nakamoto@xxxxxxxxxxx


<karenlyon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I'm newish to astronomy and tried looking at Saturn last night with my
> son's Meade DS 90 or 900 something etc..., He's 10 and thinks he's put
> it all together right and lost the manual. I was able to see the moon
> very well with lots of detail, craters and stuff. When I went on to
> look at Saturn it looks just like it does when I look at the sky with
> no telescope. I don't know what to do and feel really stupid but hope
> someone can tell me.
> Thanks,
> Karen Lyon
>


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