Well new scope arrived a few days ago and triggered the biggest rain storm Brisbane has seen since well ok the last one was what 6 months ago. Anyway now the dams are full, the roads are now lakes, and for a few glorious hours this evening the clouds dispersed and I got to try it out.
Its an 8 inch skywatcher collapsable dob.
And I love it allready. I need to learn to collimate it, but even as it was eta carinae/omega centauri and saturn were all amazing, I think the finderscope on it is better than the whole of my last scope
MikeD.