Thanks for your replies and my apologies for the lateness in mine.
Obviously things have been a bit hectic up here, what with the floods and all that, so I haven't had a lot of spare time.
Anyway I finally picked up my scope today and was lucky enough to get a bit of use out of it.
Maybe I was expecting too much, and I am in an extremely light polluted area of Brisbane and also it's nigh on a full moon too, but I was expecting Nebulae and the like...
I did get enough of Jupiter to see its gas clouds and three of its moons but I suppose I thought I'd see more detail like the red spot. The moon itself was very impressive and I'm glad I bought a moon filter! Maybe I'm expecting too much too soon.
So I need to collimate the scope and obviously darker skies and less moonlight. I did have a good look though and a couple of hours passed in no time.
I can't focus the finder scope and also I didn't see a lot of difference between my 6, 15 and 25mm eyepieces. Am I doing something wrong?
I think I stink of novice but that is what I am. Any advice/reality checks will be greatly appreciated
