[Davekyn (David)]

Yea thanks Guys…awesome feed back! I’m feeling pretty relaxed about m purchases now! No worries Erick…will be ordering of AOE + Bintel, just for your response alone J I hope you get some good chills using your new 35mm Televue Panoptic! Thanks for those tips…Noted! Roger that on the imaging filter, as well.

A little about what I am expecting!!! J

I think I know what you’re getting at Patrick…when I first pointed my little Tasco refractor, with its whopping 60mm aperture towards M42 in Orion’s Belt I had mixed feelings. Like WOW I finally found a DSO, followed with awwwwwwwww “it’s a little smudgy and very small. I can’t remember the size of the eye piece & I only ever used one at that. I would look at Omega Centuri cluster (I think it was) in-between the two pointers of Crux but up a ways at a point where it forms a triangle with the pointers as the base. I still looked like a smudge of stars as if still looking at it with my 10X50 Binos, BUT took up most of the eye piece. I have to say that I did not really expect image material, but yes…you are right…I was a little disappointed with what I could see through my little refractor…HOWEVER>>>I learnt a new appreciation of the FACTS!!!! “The distances”, “The Size of Dust lanes/stars/gas” ‘mmm whats happening inside of that that nebula” “what perspective am I looking at all this….yadda yadda yadda.
I guess I just start to wonder more about what I am looking at and have a much bigger interest in that object than I thought I had before regardless of how colorless, smudgy or tiny is looked in my little tasco refractor. I got some pretty good views of the planets with that toy scope and even enjoyed looking at the Magellan clouds and resolving double stars + found myself dreaming of the seven stars sisters & what not.
I think I have the right attitude & will be totally blown away with this new 12” Dob…there is so much I have not been able to see, but yet enough to keep my attention. I could not care less about colour, but I am hoping to at least see some of the stars within M42 that I could not make out with my little tasco. I know what you mean Patrick…But at the same time… I AM CHOPPING AT THE BIT & yes I have high expectations…but only in comparison to my little tasco that has now fallen apart completely.
What I would give to spot the andromada galxy…can we even see that from the southern hemisphere? I would be over the moon to just make out the glow of it alone. I was unable to find such targets & probably will be laughed at to say that I actually spent hours with my little telescope trying my heart out to find such targets………LOL…….I think I am about to enter a new age with regards to what this 12” Dob has to offer me.
I don’t know much as to what targets I am suppose to see with such a scope, but it’s going to be a hell of a lot more than my old broken down faithfulJ
Thanks AGAIN all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As soon as my new Scope arrives…I’ll let you know just what my reaction is, with respect to what I was expecting to see…
Dave.