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First night out.
Ahem, please excuse the newbieness of this post, but OMG!
Setup the scope in the back yard in suburban Perth on Saturday night. Wife and I opened a good bottle of red, and looked out over the sky.
First thing we did was look at the moon, and tried out all the eye pieces, zooming in as far as we could before the image shook too much, learning the limits of what we could do, and how the scope worked.
For a bit of fun, I thought I would take a look at Jupiter. I didn't think it would appear so clear, and we could see the distinct banding - I had to have the wife look through too, to make sure I wasn't imagining it, she didn't know she was looking at Jupiter, and asked what the banding was in the "star". We also saw 3 of the moons. I was not sure it was the moons we saw, until I took a look at images others had taken, and confirmed it definitely was them.
Totally hooked. Now we are planning a trip out to a friend's farm to sit in a paddock for a night.
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