Thanks for replying Nick. Thanks for the info on the direction of rotation.
There is a focus knob replacement + two clampable rods at 120 deg intervals from the knob round the main axis. I wound the focus knob fully clockwise and got a distance from scope body to an image of the Moon on a piece of card of approximately 310mm. Then I wound it fully anticlockwise and the focal point went out to more than 600mm – the dome wall got in the way of precise determination.
At best then the focal point is 310mm beyond the back of rhe scope body – which is approximately twice what I have heard reported on Cloudy Nights before. I’m not using a diagonal, so it looks like a long way – does that sound right to you?
I’m going to take the Moonlite to pieces in the light tomorrow as I’m beginning to wonder if theres a Barlow lens or something in there rather than a focal reducer. Good for planets…
Pic of the scope focuser when it was indoors attached.
