[sjen2004 (Simon)]

Hi all,
less than one week after I ordered my scope from Andrews Com it arrived today. My construction defecit order kicked in and had to do the simple (any idiot could get it right the first time) base 3 times to get it right. It was dark by the time I had finished and where are the clouds you guys promised me? Its a beautiful night, wish my neighbour would turn off his rear veranda light, he's inside, otherwise perfect seeing. Tried to collimate with a cheshire and made it worse, gave up and had a look through anyway, beautiful view of Saturn and Mars, finally worked out how align the finder scope but is it supposed to focus? Back hurting (its cold and I'm not use viewing at an angle) so I thought I'd drop you guys a line while I rested and wait for Jupiter to come up.

Thanks for all the help on the forum, lots of lurking, the sky is full of stars and when I can get the hang of collimation it will be fantastic.
Regards Simon