Hi all, I would just like to let you now how our first nights viewing went with our telescope. It took me a while to get the eq mount all set-up but boy it was well worth the effort. I finally with all of the help here worked out how to use the eq mount properly and how to find stars ect on the sky charts. So here goes first stop was veneus it was a bit hard to get into focus properly due to the cheap optics but it was still amazing! Next stop was Jupiter WOW! could see it and all of its moons it was truly amazing! But again the optics made it hard to focus but you could make out the bands on it ect. Then I decided to try to have a look at M8 The Lagoon Nebular it was very hard to seeit prperly but I could make it out and it was fantastic! The rest of the night was spent traking Jupiter ans just sitting back in ore of the sky. I need to get a new Telescope I am thinking of a 12" dob or a 10" on an EQ6 mount but I have a while before then so I will join the ASOG here in Geelong and try out a few to see what I think, but I am just in ore of what is in store so much to look at and discover its amazing!
Cheers
Eugene.
