Will be tonight. Got home from Wellington, weather was looking good so I fitted the mirror into the LTA, did some simple alignment tests and adjustments ( eyeballed it !! ) added a low power eyepiece and aimed it across at the Volcano about 3 miles away. And there it was !! A wee tweak on the mirror base and a bit of focal plane adjustment and the 12mm, the 20mm and the Barlow all work.
No, I know it is not properly finished as yet, lots of that to do and it's using a cruddy old 1.25 focusser which is probably vignetting the view to heck but it is now sitting up on the concrete pad in the garden waiting for darkness to come and to see it's first starlight. .
You'll hear the sounds of joy or dissappointment tomorrow but now I've got to find some targets for later. Damn this daylight saving !!
