Friday, 1st February 2013

08:50 - In the shower, there's a knock at the door ... house mate answers ... the scope has arrived.

09:10 - Wander downstairs to assess the package. Brown cardboard box. Size: Aprox. 870mm x 430mm x 250mm - Weight: Aprox. 12kg

09:20 - Place box in conservatory to cool down/put it out of the way.

09:30 - Go to work.

21:30 - Get home from work (after a couple of pints). Open cardboard box. Open second cardboard box. Open numerous cardboard boxes. Read instructions, decide the instructions are useless and proceed to put scope together without them.

21:50 - Scope assembled.

22:00 - Take scope outside and plug in battery pack.

22:05 - Unplug battery pack, put batteries in to battery pack and plug battery pack back in.

22:10 - Try to align finder scope.

22:35 - Rush upstairs to ask the help of the good people on Stargazer's Lounge in aligning my finder scope.

23:00 - Finder scope roughly aligned with main scope.

23:05 - Point scope at Jupiter, center the image, fine tune the focus and hold my breath in wonder ...

23:10 - Clouds come over.