well Ive just had a v enjoyable evening !
After setting up the scope and playing with the colimation of finder and main OTA I finally managed to see what I was finding in the finder scope !!!
So first thing was simply to point at the moon!
wow! v impressive and lovely .. hard on the eyes though!
very bright!
lovely features .. ok im hooked!
after some frustrating hours of trying to align the LX200 on the right stars with the polar mount I was close but not close enough ....
Anyway on my hunt round the skies brighter objects I fell across Saturn!
awesome! rings side on ... very thin .... 3 moons clearly visible!
Some problems fighting the dew .. def need to get the heater organised!!
so ... partially successful!
I think I need someone to show me exactly HOW to line up the correct way the tripod and polar alignment .. this is still puzzling me!!!
Anyone close to west melton like to demonstrate for me!!!!
Supply of coffee/tea of course
So .. pretty pleased .... I can see how this drives you to be a nocturnal!!!
lol!
rgds
Simon