Thanks for prompting us to get up there Wren! Those 3 hours or so of great skies were definitely worth the drive up.
One of the traps with a new scope is that your packing routine is all changed. I left home happy with lots of time to get there knowing I would have 30mins of twilight to collimate the beast, and 15mins down the road realised my truss poles were still sitting on the verandah!
Quick U turn back to home and then trying to beat the sunset up to Snake Valley.
Anyway, I think the collimation was a bit out but the views were all good.
The other prob with a bigger scope is all I want to do is try it out on old favourites. seeing the spiral arms of NGC1365 filling most of the field with the SN still just visible, the spirals in Dorado, and other sights made the trip special.
Then an hour or so of finding faint fuzzies with my 15x70s and Kens 80mm binos was fun.
Thanks again Ken, Ken and Wren for a great night!
Malcolm