Hey guys,
Well it arrived in the mail yesterday morning and couldn't wait to get home from work. Got home at 730 had the mount built within minutes and everything set up outside waiting for the sun to set. Finaly the sun set and I could line my finder scope up with Venus(too many trees in kalamunda to use anything else) and I was off. First stop was Jupiter and it's moons and was quite happy with the result could clearly see the colouring and all four moons. Next stop Venus still nothing exciting but was good to fine tune the finder being almost full darkness. I turned around to see the moon in it full glory, waaaay to bright
so I projected it out onto a piece of paper for my brother to have a look at. Then I moved over to have a good look for the Orion nebula no problems there was quite happy with the image will be better without such a bright moon but it's easy to find so I'm sure it will be a regular stop
had a quick look at Sirius but the mozzies won and I packed up and that was my first night!
Any sugestions for tonights viewing(apart from some aeroguard)? I now understand why the dobs are good for beginners, it's hard to be disappointed such a great view even just panning around was great fun!
Cheers all chat to you all soon
Brendon
Ps sorry about spelling and stuff writing this from my phone