Finally found some time to do a bit of "telescopic maintenance" today as I called it when telling my wife
on my 12" newt.
Cleaned both the primary and secondary mirrors, after they had both been dewed up on many occasions and had a nice hazy dirty layer on them.
Also cut about a 3x3" trap-door in the tube down near the mirror, for 2 purposes.. for being able to blow a fan across the face of the mirror to see if it can disrupt tube-currents, and also to be able to point my hair-dryer in there to de-fog the mirror when it gets dewed/fogged up from pointing straight up at Jupiter.
Skies are clear tonight so will hopefully get a chance to test them both.. looks like a dewey night ahead.