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Thanks everyone for your helpful comments!
We managed to get the scope's electronics working yesterday (Saturday), and this evening started out almost cloud-free, so I went round to Dad's place and we got the telescope set up outside. Five minutes later the set-up routine was complete - it really IS as easy as it sounds in the User Manual!
We dialled in "Go To Moon" (which was a very narrow crescent, very low in the sky), and the scope pointed itself right at the Moon, with a great eyepiece filling view - very nice!
Next up was "Go To Jupiter" - a few seconds later we were looking right at it, and the motors tracked beautifully, keeping it centred very nicely in the field of view. The belts and the 4 Galilean Moons were all very easily discernible. (No Red Spot, though - presumably it was round the far side.)
Did a few stars and the Great Orion Nebula before the clouds closed in - not bad for a "First Light" session!
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