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Ken, thanks for the offer, but the fork mount is working just fine!!
Mike - the Friday/Sat night double sounds great...subject to She Who Must Be Obeyed vetting the idea...will confirm early next week. Have a great party this weekend.
I just spend three hours at the scope in crystal clear skies tonight...first night out with the new scope. Took me about an hour to work our what the f#%@$ was going on with the focus....all I could see was a big donut of light....then realised focus was off the proverbial richter scale, and managed to reign it in. Guess what I was quite inadvertently pointing at at the time?? Saturn. Never has anything looked quite so good!
Then after a few false starts with the GPS Auto Alignment program, I got straight into some auto slewing, and took in some of the gems of the cosmos. It is so easy with the auto suite. Having said that, I also took some time just to meander through the cosmos in a totally random way....stumbled across the Jewel Box, quite by accident, a bit like stumbling across a pub after a long day of work....then I went inside and got a real beer, then back out for more exploration. Our Bangalow Palm was annoyingly in the way of Orion, and I wasn't about to shift the scope and do set-up again. So maybe another night. Just missed Jupiter...I really need to get some sleep before work tomorrow.
I am already seeing the need to get a bigger range of eyepieces. I'd better go and count my pennies.
Happy stargazing everyone!
Rodstar
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