Well no it's not all right...turns out all that other fragile crap on top or what eva ya reackon it is...has dinted my brand new scope. On second thoughts, I now wished I had bought from Bintel...then again if there using TNT forget it.
ANYWAYS.......................Mate. ..I am please to say that after blowing my horn on the piss quality service from TNT...I got a chance to do a quick test. MY GOD THE GSO instructions are tottaly &^%$ED...In fact dont follow them! you will end up pulling the thing apart and spending another hour putting back the way you thought in the first place!
Finally after we worked out what went were and discovering the big Dent down the side of an otherwise perfectly good looking scope...outside it went to see what else was &^%$ED!
Pointing the scope straight up at the zenith and messing around with the finder scope I then found the moon. I looked through one of the 8 Ep's, I grabbed randomly and was imediately blown away...I messed around with the 2XED Barlow ect......................& was getting carried away with time I did not have...I checked out on open cluster and was blown away again and knew it was time to imediately pack up as I would still be out at 5am in the morning when I should just be getting up for work!!!!
As for collimation...I was able to check out the pointers of crux and make out the doubles but when IN/OUT of foucs I would get more of an oval shape with the speider of centre...I would also get that little "Q" shape happening with the stars...like a little tail comming out of the bottom of each star of the double that makes each star look like a Q........
Despite the need for collimation...The perfectic state of the Box and "DENT" in my Telescope...I will be sure to have some good times with this scope. As well as the collimation tools, I intend to set up a red dot finder for some quick star hopping ectt........
I still intend do do a first light report...but will do it in a few days from now as I am back on shift for a whiles.
Thanks for listening to my rant.
Later
Dave........
|