Thanks all of you for your advice. I purchased the items you all suggested and it made a big difference. And thanks for the invitation to your astronomy night out Astro_nut, sounded like a great gig. Actually this week I packed up the tent and took the clan to the Snowy River. After the rain cleared, the brightest sky I've ever seen surrounded us so out came the telescope and wow. This was my first late night session and we found things up there that I didn't even know existed, it was great. Saturn blew the family away. We saw Neptune at around 2am, it was huge, saw 3 of it's moons. But I must say, it was flat and featureless. I'm thinking that using a filter might improve the contrast, don't know much about them though, any suggestions there.
Jimbo
