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Well a day and a half after the scopes arrival and several hours of attempted collimating I may finally have my scope somewhere near being right, at least close enough that I can't bear to wait any longer to at least try it on something! When I got home from work just after 11 the sky had a fair number of stars visible in the southern regions, enough so that I thought I'd sit up, try to refine the collimation, drag the scope outside and have a first peek through it! Even setting up the finder scope for a peek may have held me over.... Alas! The sky is covered with clouds, not a star visible, exactly as predicted. Thanks Paul!! :-) I guess I'll try after work again tomorrow night when I get home around 11-ish again. In the meantime I think I'll try and get some much overdue sleep so I'm fresh for a stunning nights viewing come Saturday night.
(If you don't make wishes, then your wishes can't come true........)
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