well having just laid down my thoughts, i forgot to save them! lesson learned!

tried to use my new adapter for my camera tripod and realised that it is too short. thought about a box, but will that not be unsteady? If i find myself a chair. presumably a fixed height one would need several cushions to change height with.

Recommendations please!

anyhow, monday night was good and so, dispencing with the tripod, went to work on the roof of the car, still to wobbly but better than nothing and the glimpses i did get are really enticing me to go forward! spent quite a lot of time looking at the moon, is there a beginners map of the moon that i can take outside and reference?

I have been trawling through various blogs and threads on here, I must say that there is so much help out there! - thanks, I am going to take my time, no rush, nothing is going anywhere and i particularly like the thread about what i will actually see through the scope, I thought as much, but for sure i will not be dissapointed now.

I get delivery of my scope tomorrow, in a way, I wish it wasnt coming so soon, but the price was very good, and that i spent more time learning the sky with my binos, but i guess with the goto feature, i can "point" at the area of sky and look at it with the naked eye, binos and scope, comparing and contrasting.

But take my time........