My baby newt

[wingman]

My first ever telescope, it's only a littley but I'm very proud of it (I haven't seen anything through it except trees but still....it's mine!!) :hello1:

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[rawhead]

Looks good to me

You'll have a lot of fun with that

[Astro_Baby]

Its a lovely bit of kit - I love my little 130PM and its been a sweet thing. Soon as you get a clear sky am sure you will love yours too.

[beamer3.6m]

130pm is awesome.

You will love it.

[SteelRat]

A great setup John 8) You will have lots of fun with that I'm sure. Nice that you have the driven mount too. Enjoy!

cheers

Matthew

[Ant]

Very nice! I started off with a scope very similar indeed!

Time to update your signature?

Ant

[Astro_Baby]

Have you had a chance to use it yet ? The skys been quite clear near me this week.

For night owls Jupiter has been around from midnight onwards - the 130PM should give you a pretty solid view of it especially outdoors with the scope cooled down.

It really is a great bit of kit.

[wingman]

Not really Mel, it gets dark so late at the moment and I have to be up early to walk the dog before I go to work so I'm really limited to Saturday nights unless I want to risk falling asleep at my desk! It's very frustrating!!

From the brief usage so far, which was just a look at Arcturus, it seems a good buy, I haven't even had to collimate it because it looks spot on using my cheshire.

Don't laugh but never having even looked through a telescope before I was amazed at how many more stars appear in the eyepiece than are visible with the naked eye, even with the least powerful of my eyepieces, and it wasn't even properly dark at the time so I'm sure I'm going to get a lot of enjoyment with it.

Oh well, they say patience is a virtue!

[DanDare]

Looks good wingman.

Oh well, they say patience is a virtue!

It is in this game

[Astro_Baby]

Patience is the elxir of observing for sure. Lots of nothing much happening in between moments of delight.

The 130 shouldnt need collimating much at all. I learnt collimation on mine when my youngest son undid the spider vanes to see what the screws did aaaarrrgggghhhhhh !!!!!!

[wingman]

He has an enquiring mind, I predict a great future for him (so long as he doesn't dismantle your new scope for you, especially after all the trouble you've had)