If the image does not look clear visualy it is either a dirty lens or mirror or the mirror needs adjustment.
If it looks clear try taking a picture with a cell phone and see how that looks. Here are some pictures I took by just holding my tablet up to the eyepiece, no tracking.
I used a 13.1...
I have been running SETI At Home since 1999 I know it has a slim chance of finding anything but I keep it running all the time.
https://boincstats.com/signature/-1/user/39954869/project/sig.png
Going back a step there was a good discussion about a paper on the emergence of native peptide sequences in prebiotic replication networks.
Here is the link to the discussion
You might want to look into Google hangouts and just post the time and day, start one up and see who shows up they can hold 15 people for voice/video and no limit in the side text chat.
Try to get away cleanly, and under no circumstances piss her off or make her angry, you do not want to go there. believe me. I dealt with fires being started and dead animals on my doorstep and that was the nice one.
The new geometric version of quantum field theory could also facilitate the search for a theory of quantum gravity that would seamlessly connect the large- and small-scale pictures of the universe
https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20130917-a-jewel-at-the-heart-of-quantum-physics/
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