Thanks for the report! Glad to hear the scope is getting a work out!
I noticed that you were concentrating on Messier objects. There are some nicer globulars that are not "M" objects, if you want to try more globulars... Try
NGC 6397 in Ara (easy to find) and
NGC 6752 in Pavo.
Well worth the look - they are much brighter than the ones you tried in this report.
