Finally the sky cleared enough for me to drag the scope onto the lawn...YIPPEE!!
Seeing was average, as was my first collimation, but good enough to get some viewing in.
I discovered the other day that my nice new EQ6 was dead on arrival so that goes back to Andrews next week for replacement/repair which is fine I know stuff happens that's life, but a week to get there & a week to get back...sometimes it's no fun living in a backwater like Darwin.
But anyway...pushing it around dob style I started on M42, lovely.
No luck on the Rosette so went looking for Saturn...
What a beauty, four moons visible, stayed with that a while (and went back a couple times more) then off to the Leo triplet nextdoor.
Found my favourite M104 with a definite dust lane, can't wait to try imaging that little bugger, then over to M4 where I concluded the evening as dew was getting a little ridiculous at that stage.
A couple of other "unidentifieds" were in there too ( hey I'm a newbie) so not a bad first night out, certainly made me happy...can't you tell from my rabbiting.
Loving my WO 28mm UWA & 9mm SWA, that porthole on the universe makes finding things a little easier.
So this looks like the start of a long & wonderful relationship between myself & the sky.
Long journey ahead with the photograghy side of thing, looking forward to that though.
Now while the mounts gone I wonder if I can strap the ED80 to the camera tripod...
Thanks for viewing guys & girls, just had to tell someone.
JD