6/11
Bit of a frustrating one for me, first night out with my 2nd hand celestron zoom on a heritage 130p.
Lots of moisture in the air and seeing was next to awful. Got my breath on the lens of the zoom and the night never really recovered from there haha.
Got some nice views of the moon and orion nebula but most DSO targets flooded with moon light. Once the clouds covered the moon around 0100 it got better but then cloud coverage completly blocked everything.
A shame as my previous two sessions after getting back into it again were brilliant! Guess you have to take the rough with the smooth.
Have a 32mm vixen NPL arriving in a few days which should make star hopping a bit easier.
The zoom is fun but as others have said the field of view is very narrow, which I now realise is something I really don't like!
So will pick up a couple of BSTs and use the zoom as a "compliment" as oppose to it being a "main" eyepiece. The baader 20% offer is tempting but feel a 200 pound eyepiece may be over kill for this scope.