It's arrived!! Very happy.

[iwatkins]

Hi All,

I had a wonderful welcome when I joined SGL a couple of weeks ago, thank you.

I also got a lot of sound advice when I started looking at various bit of equipment, thank you again.

So, my SW 80ED PRO refractor kit arrived today along with an NEQ6 PRO. Just had a try with some terrestrial viewing with the telescope and Wow, sharp or what?

While it is still daylight I have been getting used to the hand controller for the mount and finding where everything is on the mount and scope.

I think I have as much setup done as I can before night fall. I plan to get out there and go through all the polar alignment setup ASAP (if the cloud clears) and then have a quick tour.

Really happy with the setup. So thank you for the advice guys

Also thank you for FLO for all the great advice and supplying various extension tubes, DSLR mounts and EPs. And to OpticStar for the scope and mount.

Happy days

Cheers

Ian

[Bigdaddyjeff]

Great news on the arrival Ian and wishing you clear skies real real soon

[ollypenrice]

Ditto. You'll enjoy the moon for a start. Let Saturn get high and then see how that looks. Early morning usually has the best stability as the land cools and stops warming the air.

Olly

[Viv]

Ian - nice one

Looking forward to seeing your pics from it.

Fingers crossed for a clear one.

[nightfisher]

good luck and clear skies

[costeveol]

Great - hope you enjoy many amazing nights under the stars

[Veracocha]

This thread is useless without pictures. So here's mine. C'mon iwatkins, I'm excited just hearing about yours.

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[iwatkins]

Veracocha, yes, will do some photos soon :-)

After a week I got first light tonight :-)