Well my 12" Dob arrived on Wednesday and to my great surprise it was a collapsable Dob
I emailed Cris at Astronomy Alive to say that they had sent the wrong Telescope ! Cris explained that he had emailed to say that they had upgraded my purchase at no extra cost, I had not seen the email, for some reason I had missed it
so I decided to keep it and tonight I gave it a little work out, anyone in Perth will know it was not the best time to do this
but hey the moon was out,But I was blown away with what I could actually see even with the clouds and even THROUGH the clouds!! So I pointed it at the moon not expecting too much just wanted to see something, well I could see everything craters ridges valleys Wow, then I remembered that Saturn was prominent at the moment so looked on the Stellarium app and yep just below the moon, it was popping in and out of the clouds, but managed to find it in the finder scope and when I saw it ...well I will never forget it !! slowly drifting through the 25mm eyepiece I watched it for ages going back and forth with the scope, I put on the 10mm for a little while which was amazing but a little too quick ,
Ok better shut up now before you all start snoring
Thanks all
Ray
Ps, Collomation
took me an hour and still couldn't get the laser beam in the centre !! I will be back with more ??'s