Struggling to use my new telescope I recently got my first telescope, a Bushnell reflector telescope. I spent a good while setting up my alignment. And I can see the moon perfectly! I went to look at another, Mars. I got it aligned in my finderscope. And i go to focus to see. And i see....basically the mirror in my scope with the lines. Its clearly getting light from the star....but i can't get it to focus on the star at all! Help!!
It looks to me like you have two problems.


You need to adjust the focus. All telescopes come with a knob that alters the focus. This is pretty easy.
the shadow you see is from the secondary mirror, and it is off centre. I don't know what the word for this is (off-collimation?), but I had it the other night and I fixed it by wiggling the secondary mirror and making sure it was flush with the hole it's supposed to fit in.


Try using the focus and if it's still bad, take another shot and post it here and maybe someone with more experience than me can help.