Well it's home! It fitted in the back with the passenger seat folded forward. It only needed about 10cm more room and I could have got away without folding the seat down. It will be fine out of the carton.
Now the fun begins. I've got it upstairs in my flat ready to assemble.
It will have a permanent indoor home downstairs in the (huge) laundry once I have finished assembling and admiring and playing with it.
The carton had suffered a fair bit of damage from freight handling, and it worried me when I saw it in the freight warehouse but with the OTA out of the carton I can't see any signs of damage to the scope itself. A few loose phillips head screws that need tightening but I guess that is to be expected.
Time to celebrate. Where's is the real beer? (Thats Boags to the uninitiated).
Of course there is 100% cloud cover now, with storms promised for tomorrow, but I will have fun in the meantime assembling, collimating, aligning the finder scope and Rigel QF etc.
S'pose I better change my profile now to reflect my ownership of this brute.
GF due up here any time now, and I can't wait to see her face when she clocks it for the first time!