NEW SCOPE

[lindon uk]

Hi All, i ordered my SKYMAX 127 GOTO on thursday his week from "TELESCOPE PLANET" and it arrived the next day, but as i opened the box it seems the clouds came wth it, so not had chance to use it yet, it's just sitting in my living room teasing me, but just checked the weather and i have got clear skies early tommorow morning, so early to bed ( thats if i can sleep lol ) take care all.

[The_PSY3NTIST]

Im in the same boat as you! I resorted to upside down bird watching as an excuse to use it BBC weather reckons clear skies at 3am here so no sleeping for me tonight. Hoping to get my first look at saturn

[dweller25]

Very good choice of scope.

To get the best out of your Mak make sure it's well cooled down.

Did you get a dew shield for it ? - you will need one.

[Rusty Strings]

Thats assuming the clouds clear.

John

[dweller25]

Tonights the night .....

[Neil27]

Hi,

Good luck with the clear skies I've been waiting for about 3 weeks now.....

[Scott Tilley]

Yep! all form an orderly que!!

Scott

[Beyond_Vision]

Welcome to SGL Lindon

Regards

[Starjumper]

Hi Lindon,

Welcome to SGL.

John

[fuelbender]

Welcome i to am in the clouds, and it's cold out there. good luck:)

[Stephen Green]

Hi a warm welcome to the SGL

Stephen

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Welcome, and thanks for confirming the "new-kit effect": cloud cover is inversely proportional to the time elapsed since your most recent acquisition of new stargazing kit.

Cheers

Michael

[simonfletcher7]

Hi Lindon,

I also bought a Skymax 127 on New Years eve and was fortunate enough to get to use it on the first night home - I got a great view of Mars before the corrector plate misted over!! - it was about -8°C outside, and I had been out for nearly an hour so I took it as a blessing in disguise . Mind you, two minutes after coming in, all hell broke loose as fireworks and hot air lanterns filled the skys - it was New year afterall!!

I went for the supatrak mount (and a star atlas!). Maybe i'm old-fashioned, but I am up for the challenge of trying to star hop using a map to try and find objects (plus I have stellarium running on the PC to tell me what I should be seeing in the back garden!)

Really pleased with the scope so far and thank you to all the members on SGL who have written reviews which helped me to make up my mind about choosing it. The big plus for me is the portability and speed with which it can be set up - you just have to remember to put it outside at least 30mins before intended use to 'cool down' for optimum viewing.

My only additional purchase so far was a 17Ah 12V portable power supply from Maplin. It is yellow and designed for jump starting cars, with a built in air compressor and torch - I have put a red sweet wrapper inside the lens cap as a filter. It has a 12V DC supply socket on the side and the best bit was that the supplied cable fits the supatrak mount! It is currently on sale at £24.99 (was £39.99). Works a treat, and when suspended underneath the accessory tray with bungee cords, provides additional ballast to make the mount more stable.

Anyway, hello to everyone else and looking forward to my first trip out to a proper dark sky site.

Simon

[phattanglo]

So it's not just my fault Lindon, the curse of the new scope:)