I took the scope out last Saturday with mixed results. I concentrated on finding points of interest in Scorpius's tail, finding M7 fairly quickly but had trouble discerning any nebula nearby. I did see an unknown galaxy half way between it's body and stinger though. I think I found Vesta as well, well I looked in the area Stellarium was telling me Vesta should be. An upside down image through the newt had me confused more than once. The most likely candidate to be Vesta was a yellowish thing but I can't be certain and it was slightly off where Stellarium was showing me. Oh well, I might try again next Saturday.
In the mean time my new Paracorr type 1, Nagler 13T6, 24mm Panoptic and UHC filter arrived today.
That should help with those illusive nebula (although just more time at the eyepiece training my eyes would help too).
Some pics of the new arrivals and their place in the carry case. Hmmmm still room for one or two more eyepieces....
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http://i669.photobucket.com/albums/v...f/SAM_1862.jpg
Saturday can't come quick enough!