[Intergage (Matt)]

Hey all,

I FINALLY got my new scope up and running (I would use my Bino's but don't have a tripod for them) anyway, Saturday night I took out the telescope with my missus and attempted to just point and look at a couple of clusters and stuff. Wasn't very successful saw a couple of small clusters but overall it was blackness. I got fairly pissed at it because of how much it moved, how much I had to focus it etc BUT..

BUT last night I saw the moon and thought "Easy target!" got the scope out again and put in the 20mm lens and looked at the moon, it was breath taking. So I put in the 3x zoom +20mm lens and took a look again. I was stunned.. I couldn't describe what I felt when I saw the surface of the moon from my back yard. I had to see closer so I got out (I THINK!) the 4mm or the 40mm (Not sure, little lens but high magnification) and dropped that into the 3x zoom and as I was refocusing for the new lens I started to see mountain peaks, crators, detailed land scape.

It was, hands down the most beautiful thing I have EVER seen and it was just the moon. After looking for a bit longer until it went down (Was only up for about 40min and then went down again)

Around 10:30pm before I went to bed I remember I left the scope out so I went to pack it away and thought before I do that I should scan the sky for some thing to look at as it was fairly dark. Picked the brightest star I could find and found it threw the 20mm lens, looked like a bright star so I put the 3x in with the 20mm and I started to see 2 other objects near the bright star, centered it and put in the high mag lens and my heart almost dropped out the legs of my pants. I'm not 100% sure but I'm 90% sure that it was Jupiter and two of its moons. I followed it for about 40min just kept readjusting etc and watched it and watched it.

I'm hooked, no questions asked.


tl;dr: Finally got scope working, saw the moon's surface and 90% sure I saw Jupiter and 2 of it's moons. Hooked for life no questions asked.