Thank you for your post Tinderboxsky. The table top was just a piece of junk that came with the scope. I was planning on getting a better mount (camera mount).
It had a straight eyepiece so yes completely agree that it would have been a massive pain in the neck (pun intended
) had I spent alot of time with it. The one with the right angle eyepiece was a smaller scope with a 50mm aperture so wasnt so keen on it.
I just went o paxtons to have a handson look at the spotting scope and could only find the 15-45x 50mm scope. I got told that they had never stocked the 15-45x 60mm
was totally disappointed but then saw a couple of bushnell binoculars. Will need to do some research to see which ones can show me the moons of jupiter. Oh well