Hi Bob and others,
I just came from my mates place where our DOB is stored to the delight of his wife and I would now recommend that every person must have a 12" DOB in there astronomy arsinel. How unbelievable are the views. We have only manually collimated without even a film canister and I am blown away. To spin this thing around and in the space of 1 hour view up to 15 galaxies (huge in the field of view), Helix, Tarantula, ORIONNNNNNNN and others with probably still bad collimation and GSO eyepieces I'm amazed. Will definately go a laser and hopefully better viewing. What a machine.
Mark
