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12.5
"The Jewelbox comes up a treat doesn't it Scott!
Wait for dark skies and your first look at something really challenging for that amount of glass. In the interim she loves Planetaries. Start with the Blue Planetary (just to see what a Blue Planetary really looks like through a good size chunk of glass) and then head over to the Ghost of Jupiter. These objects are quite easy to enjoy in polluted skies so they make a good target.
I have now had several sessions with the Discovery's replacement as we have had better weather than you guy's. Unfortunately I am not having as much fun with the software side of things. The scopes build and optics are amazing but so far the accuracy of the GOTO is a bit of a letdown (actually a lot). I figure I must be missing a step but the instructions are so BAD (read ambiguous) especially when it comes to Southern Hemisphere usage that I can't tell. Naturally an email to the Manufacturer after a $13000.00 purchase gets no response...
Third time out started to produce some reasonable accuracy, nothing compared to my LX200 but none the less useable as long as I stayed in the Southern Hemisphere, the moment I head North it starts to lose the objects in the eyepiece but keeps them in the finder scope, hhmmm....
As I get the polar alignment right the accuracy gets better but it is supposed to adjust for a rough polar alignmnent which is were it seems to fail. I know where the pole is but when rushing to use a new toy you are unfamiliar with the patience to wait until dark to set up properly just fails me so a rough align it has been so far.
You would think a scope this pricy would come with a polar finder...
Enough on the negatives, the view through this baby?
wow!
Paul medcraft
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