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Sooooo, a year later than expected (had another baby, moved twice, bought a house, chocka at work etc) I finally have my gear! Well most of it anyway haha. Took the new baby over to the UK to show her off to the family and took the opportunity to bring stuff back. I managed one clear night there with my parents and they had their first looks through a scope, I'd almost forgotten how short the nights are in summer there! Literally got gasps and wows at their first sights of jupiter and saturn, it was a really special night that we will all remember forever. Managed to bring all of the G11 (its a solid, heavy b*gger) and all the components of the scope except the bare tube which was a decent effort I thought (it all survived intact). It was an epic struggle at times with a frowning missus, a 4 year old, a baby and 105kg of luggage travelling for 39 hours door to door.
I now just need to source a bare tube to mount the components, any ideas guys? its a 200mm f6 newt, wondering whether to just get a local sheet metal place to roll me one up?
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