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Drove the 12" home with a big smile on my face. Took around half an hour or so to set up. I bought some castors for the base, which I will install shortly, I can see for my set up I will need them.
Anyway...
I am actually going on holiday tomorrow so I will be away for a week or so, but I couldn't resist trying her out tonight
I set her up and decided once twilight fell to align the finderscope on the brightest star earliest. I could tell immediately through the finderscope what I had suspected was correct. I was looking at Jupiter.
With a low power lens I aligned the two scopes.
Then I put in my Orion Planetary 5mm eyepiece... woah, I could see Jupiter's cloud bands and I could go on but you all probably know exactly what I saw. And this was at only 7.45pm or so.
I went out later, and put in the 32mm wide field and aimed straight at the great nebula in Orion. Heavenly!
And it's not even dark, or winter, etc, etc...
I'm hooked.
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