[ben.]

Hello everyone! Just a quick first post to make myself known.

My lovely girlfriend bought me a Celestron NexStar 4SE for Christmas and I find myself cursing the weather more often than usual. As a surfer, I like clear, sunny days. Now I'm after cloudless night skies for a whole new reason!

Always been interested in star stuff and had always been in the market for a telescope, until I received an amazing Chrissy gift.

So far have laid eyes on M41, M47, M93, a few NGC objects and spied Jupiter with 4 moons (I think) and possibly Uranus. The skies from my backyard are almost entirely obscured my trees except for a portion NE to E. I live up on the Northern Beaches of Sydney so there isn't too much light pollution around and some nice dark spaces within a 10min drive away.. Come on clear skies!

Just ordered my first few eyepieces and some filters and a power pack to drive the scope.. I never realised how expensive AA batteries were!

Anyway, hope to learn a few more things from loitering around here.

Cheers..