Interesting thread, glad to see you got it to work Jurago. The Skylux is a decent instrument for the price. You can improve it by flocking the focuser tube with flat-black material and possibly removing the baffle at the end of the focuser tube (this baffle causes some long FL eyepieces to vignette). The Skylux works well with Abbe style orthos and will also reach focus without the diagonal - the focuser tube has enough travel. It does come out a long way.
The Skylux is also a suitable donor scope for a
reversible PST modification (The SunLux it is called then)
The barlow that comes with this unit is not very good. A short focal length eyepiece will work much better. Do not go below 5mm of eyepiece focal length (if using the 3x barlow, that means nothing shorter than 15mm).
I'm in Europe myself right now and have been watching the morning planets (in superb seeing), which ride high before dawn, especially Jupiter. The scope I use here is a Skylux.