Welcome John,

After reading your post I went looking for my old 114 SW reflector buried deep in the store room,dusted it off and sat it on a spare AZ3 tripod and used it tonight looking at the moon, forgot about the welding flash you get with a bright moon,I always use bino's in my scopes for the moon.Couldn't believe how clear the view was,a dark site will be great.I also found my 7 year old IOptron 80mm baby cube, plug it in and it tracked the moon for 90 minutes,so the old blue boys got some light tonight. Enjoy the dark nights.