kilix

Yesterday I got a first light on my new ST80/400. What a nice little scope. I like it already. The views it gives are not unsimilar to a pair of binoculars... except a bit more powerful. And it is even lighter than my 10x50 bins. No wonder that it is a well known and well liked travel scope. Those wide-field views complement my Maksutov nicely and I can't wait for summer to take it for a hike/camp somewhere dark.

The AZ3 mount needs a little tweaking thou, but that is perfectly fine with me, I am certainly not both-hands-left-handed. Modding it with counterweight is in progress. What surprised me, is the sturdiness of the AZ3 mount and tripod. Better than AZ GoTo tripod which comes with SkyMax 127 (and Skymax is almost 4x more expensive than this).