Hello

[starry night]

Good evening all, just wanted to say hello as joined today. Based in Penn (just outside Wolverhampton).Bought my wife a Skywatcher Sk1309 eq2 for xmas and we set it up today. We were able to get a good view of the moon and some craters etc and very pleased apart from the mount which will not hold the scope up I will post about the mount in another section. Hope to chat to you all at some point.

[JamesM]

Hi Starry Night and welcome to the forum.

Shame about your mount letting you down but this is all part of the wonders of observing. I'm sure it's something straight forward so will only be a short term glitch.

Wishing you clear skies for the next session.

James

[oldfruit]

Hi and welcome to SGL.

[dafman]

Hello and welcome to SGL

[nightfisher]

hello and welcome to sgl

[nobbytate]

Hi and welcome from me to

[brantuk]

Hi Starry Night and welcome to SGL

[Simms]

Hi!! I am new and still researching my Telescopes before making my first purchase - however I am having a blast with a pair of 15x70 Binoculars - amazed at what I can see with those - very excited about getting a decent scope.

[Rusty Strings]

Hi and welcome to SGL

[Ewok]

Hello Starry Night. Good luck with your kit.

[Mr Spock]

Hello and welcome to SGL

[Brendan of Borg]

Hello and welcome!

[Dave S]

Welcome to the forum.

Dave...

[johnh]

Welcome from Brisbane.

JohnH.

[Pete Presland]

hi welcome to sgl from bedfordshire

[Bizibilder]

Hello Starry Night and welcome to SGL!!

[BAZ Senior]

Hi Starry Night, welcome to the Lounge.

[sherr03]

Hi welcome to SLG. Your not far from me. I think there is a black country club somewhere on here.

[Saata]

Hi Starry Night, welcome to SGL!

[todd8137]

hello starry night and welcome,hope you get the mount sorted

pat

[russ]

Welcome to the forum.

Good to hear you have already had some nice views with the scope. We'll certainly give loads of advice on a possible upgrade for the mount.

[jamespels]

Hi Starry Night - welcome and good luck with your mount!

[gazza666]

Hi and welcome to SGL From a Noob Hope to hear about your setup

[glowjet]

Hi Starry Night, a warm welcome to the SGL forum.

John.

[starry night]

Thank you all for the welcomes seem to have got the mount sorted by doing balancing again (all the bolts/clutches?) keep going loose no matter how many times one tightens them) but ok for now. Wierd thing happens now there is a large dust cover on the front when I remove that I can't see anything but when I leave the large cover on and only remove the small cover built inside it I can see fine, wierd!

Also about mounts I found one on e bay called supa-trak alt azimuth mount but not sure if my scope will fit it so maybe better not to buy.