[Dhufish (Matthew)]

Hi there,
I live in Perth and have had a long time interest in astronomy.
As a child I had a small reflector and remember looking at Halley's comet.
I have run several astronomy nights as a teacher and thought it was time to get a telescope for myself (and my kids).
I was always going to make my own, grind a mirror etc but got a good cheap second hand meade ds-10. Most likely from late 80's.

I have some new Meade 4000 eyepieces on order as at the moment I just have one 25 mm. Unfortunately the weather has been quite bad.

My plans include:

Learning how to collimate the scope (with f/4.5)
Get a laser collimator
Learn to polar align and track.
Get a modified webcam for imaging deep space
Join a club?
Find some other people with the same scope
Make a solar filter to watch the transit of venus

Thanks for reading dhufish