Our Celestron Power Seeker 114EQ fell over, now we are having difficulty seeing through it. Are the mirrors jostled, is there a way to fix this?

Have you looked in the manual ?

Go on Celestron's web page to see if you can get them there.

Hi,
Learn how to use it by downloading the user manual from the link below.

www.celestron.com/c3/images/files/downloads/1199047818_powerseeker5060.pd

Get support and more on your product from this link:

www.celestron.com/astronomy/telescopes/celestron-powerseeker-70az.html/

Hope this helps.Thanks!
Kenneth.

Hi David I would try calling and leave a call back number with them.

1. Get Stellarium or another fine astronomy program
2. During the day, point the telescope at a part of the landscape about 100 yards away.
3. Use the lowest power eyepiece (highest number) in the focal tube.
4. Center the landscape object in the telescope.
5. Align the finder scope so that it points exactly where the main telescope is.
6. At night, leave the scope out to reach thermal equilibrium (about an hour for small reflectors and refractors)
7. If the scope is on a EQ mount, polar align.
8. Point the finder at the moon. The moon should be in the main scope also.
9. Practice finding the moon before you start on the planets
10. Once you are comfortable with the moon and planets, you can go for the deep sky objects

Sight??? If the small finderscope feel apart you can buy another one of better quality here:
http://www.telescope.com/Accessories/Telescope-Finder-Scopes/pc/3/49.uts


If you mean the eyepiece fell apart then the same Company shown above (Orion) also sells eyepieces.



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Yes there are two mirrors-- the small secondary underneath the focuser and the large primary-- on the bottom.

You can remove the entire secondary "spider" and then glue the secondary back on using epoxy or silicon.

Then put it back in an collimate the scope. If the primary mirror is damaged then it is not worth repairing.

http://www.andysshotglass.com/Collimating.html


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This is an EQ mount which must be polar aligned in order to be used:

Read This:

http://www.optcorp.com/product.aspx?pid=3050

NO, you do not need a diagonal. The eyepiece goes directly into the focuser.

images in astronomical telescopes are always INVERTED-- you can buy an "erecting prism diagonal" for terrestrial viewing, but it is not needed for star gazing.

Stars are ALWAYS pinpoints of light when the scope is focused no matter how much magnification is applied.

You are NOT focused properly -- when you are you cannot see the secondary mirror or the "spider" bracket that holds the mirror.

You will NEVER see a star as a disk, only as a pinpoint light. If you are seeing what looks like a donut with a dark center you are not focused.