First light last night

[Dinger]

Fedex turned up at work yesterday with the Skymax 127 and EQ3 GoTo ordered by me and my son.

After the cardboard fight we had it all together and took it outside. We checked the polar alignment reticule and it was OK so we left it for darkness to fall and cool down.

We weren't going to put power to it yet so we manually slewed it to a couple of objects then pointed it at a nice bright object over the house.

Michael took the first look - "NO WAY" he shouted.

That was our first sight of Jupiter and (I think) three of her moons off to the right.

WOW!

With the supplied 10mm eyepiece we could clearly see two bands of colour across the surface.

For first light with our first scope we were most impressed. Methinks we'll be trudging up a steep learning curve for a long while to come though.

If it's clear tonight we'll try to set it up for GoTo use and try a few more observations.

[paul mc c]

There is nothing like first light on a new scope,and to have a clear sky! Well done.

[AstroGeek99]

Fedex turned up at work yesterday with the Skymax 127 and EQ3 GoTo ordered by me and my son.

After the cardboard fight we had it all together and took it outside. We checked the polar alignment reticule and it was OK so we left it for darkness to fall and cool down.

We weren't going to put power to it yet so we manually slewed it to a couple of objects then pointed it at a nice bright object over the house.

Michael took the first look - "NO WAY" he shouted.

That was our first sight of Jupiter and (I think) three of her moons off to the right.

WOW!

With the supplied 10mm eyepiece we could clearly see two bands of colour across the surface.

For first light with our first scope we were most impressed. Methinks we'll be trudging up a steep learning curve for a long while to come though.

If it's clear tonight we'll try to set it up for GoTo use and try a few more observations.

I had my first telescope come yesterday as well, however I was working alone and had no idea what I was doing. In the end I did catch sight of two white dots, one brighter than the other, but I have no idea what they were and this was after 2 hours. I managed to align the finder scope and the main telescope this morning so I just have to wait to see if it worked tonight.

Payge

[andrew63]

Hope you get some practice in while this clear spell holds !

andrew

[MadAlbert]

'Tis exciting for you, I bet

Clear skies.

[Matt Scunthorpe]

Gratz on the new scope. Reminds me of how i first saw Jupiter. Went to line up my finderscope, and just chose the brightest thing i could see to make it easier, turns out it was Jupiter lol.

[Rijidij]

Congratulations on avoiding the new gear curse!

[planetdnb]

Fedex turned up at work yesterday with the Skymax 127 and EQ3 GoTo ordered by me and my son.

After the cardboard fight we had it all together and took it outside. We checked the polar alignment reticule and it was OK so we left it for darkness to fall and cool down.

We weren't going to put power to it yet so we manually slewed it to a couple of objects then pointed it at a nice bright object over the house.

Michael took the first look - "NO WAY" he shouted.

That was our first sight of Jupiter and (I think) three of her moons off to the right.

WOW!

With the supplied 10mm eyepiece we could clearly see two bands of colour across the surface.

For first light with our first scope we were most impressed. Methinks we'll be trudging up a steep learning curve for a long while to come though.

If it's clear tonight we'll try to set it up for GoTo use and try a few more observations.

I can hear your wallet quivering from here! It gets addictive!

[Pyrodave]

Gratz on your first light