The first thing you saw through your new scope?

[sardaukarr]

oh yeah and it was a 20 quid 4" reflector from tesco which the finder didnt work so it took me about 2 1/2 drunken hours ><

[toml42]

skywatcher 200p yesterday, found a gap in the clouds and aligned the scope on Arctaurus, as it was the brightest thing in the sky at the time, then immediately on to saturn jawdropping!

[abumuhannadh]

what a coincidence, tonight was my first ever watch through a telescope and you started this topic.

it was Saturn and WOW, what a sight

[insomnia]

A mobile phone mast about 4 miles away, then the Moon and Saturn.

[johnkirkpatrick]

Mine too was the Moon soon followed by Saturn, both feb of this year

[Bryndalf]

polaris (through polar scope)

Then 3 stars for alignment (cant remember all, but one was Rigel)

then finally my target

M42 in all its glory

[marcdearn]

Orion Nebula (M42), Arcturus, Pleaides (M45)and Saturn, in that order, on the same night, before it got too cold.......

[Michael Rapley]

Same as many others here, i looked at the moon first. At the time i thought that looking at a full moon would give the best views lol

[anthony]

blackness, very defocussed star, then very swiftly a very faint ring nebula. (Joys of GOTO on a meade lx200)

[J.Stowe]

Well my first spot was Saturn. i was so happy to see her and ran into my house and dragged the wife outside to show her it too lol.

[ollypenrice]

Saturn. It made me dizzy with amazement.

Olly

[torinouk]

I bought my first scope a couple of months ago and the first thing I saw was the moon followed by Saturn. Mind blowing stuff! I took a couple of pictures at the same time by holding my compact camera to the eyepiece. I hope to be getting a DSLR soon so will be able to take some better ones.

[Talitha]

My very first light was the Sun.

The solar filter arrived the same day as my first scope (ETX 90RA), and i couldn't wait till dark.

[Chris H]

Jupiter, it was amazing to see a couple of bands and four of its moons.

[callisto]

Jupiter and its moons, 1985 through a 60mm Tasco frac

[davy999]

Moon and then mars through small tasco scope during mars close visit about 7 years ago.

With new scope? Altair then M15.

Still waiting for first glimpse at Saturn.

[ampleamp]

2000 from kiwi skies, Jupiter through a brass scope - good memories as we had a southern lights show the following week

[Moon Lander]

Looking at the sky, I might get first light tonight - fingers and everything else crossed!

[PhilD]

Saturn. I was so amazed at what I was seeing that I got my wife out of bed to come and have a look. I was 1am!

[acharris77]

Well my first object was the moon with my 60mm Tasco when I was 14. Then I had a Meade 114ec goto owned for a week jun 09 (took back as it was so unsteady and really bad goto) which I think I seen Saturn, then I saw Saturn, Moon and Vega in my 130p last jun on 1st night out.

[Sparrow]

OK the very first thing I saw was the inside of the lense cap:)

Once I'd got over that basic mistake, I'm pleased to say my very first object was actually M42. Even now although I mainly do imaging, I can't resist swinging round to M42 for a visual when it's in the sky. After that of course it has to be the moon - a nice easy target and never fails to impress - even in low powered scopes.

[ezza123]

I can now say after four hours of trying to align my scope - i gave up for the night, went in to my daughters room and saw a bright star next to the moon - took the scope up and with out aligning, slew it to the star and was happy to say the first main objective for me was Jupiter and its moons! didn't get much detail, as i was aiming between two street lights on a crooked floor low in horizon, amazing!

[Llamanaut]

the moon, tycho to be precise, aged 14 through a tasco 60mm refractor...

[onmehedson]

T`was the sun for me.. projected onto white card, like Talitha, I just couldn`t wait for the night to fall. Year 1984...

Scope was a 60mm tasco, did everyone here start with this refractor??

[msinclairinork]

Saturn for me. was amazing!