After many years of interest in the sky, especially now we live in a semi rural area south of Brisbane, and a lot of uming and arring about whether I would use a telescope past a few times I bought a second hand Saxon 8" Dob.
The finderscope and eyepieces are missing, the mirrors dirty and the collapsible secondary would not collapse - but it was a good price.
I spent yesterday blowing dust of the mirrors and freeing up the seized collapsible rod and playing with collimation I had a go last night.
Using cheap eyepieces from a tiny Australian geographic scope and no finder I managed to see Jupiter with faint cloud bands and a little bit of texture in Mars, I'm now spurred on to spend some money......let the adventure begin
