She performed wonderfuly, had storm clouds brewing on the horizon this arvo boy did it rain, had to wait 'til about 1 am to take her out. I was in for one heck of a suprise once the optics cooled to ambient temperature I went star hopping for about an hour until I stumbled across the great orion nebula in all its glowing glory. After using my 80mm for the last few years I was not expecting the brightness of the nebula it almost blinded me, forget about the grey blurry smudge the 80mm delivers, my 12'' managed to showcase the orion nebula beautifuly framing that awsome greeny blue sea of colour (even in the medium level light pollution) espiceally through the 32mm wide angle.
I did chuck the orion sky glow filter into my 15mm but could'nt get enough of the wide angle eye piece.
I cannot wait 'till I can get a look a jupiter!
Oh well better get to bed got work tomorrow (though I rather stay up and get a look at the moon.)