Had my new kit more than a week & still no first light!

[Specman]

I sit in doors like some sado playing with my new kit, twiddling and fiddling. Guess what?.....Tonight I centred my polar scope, WOW! My precious...

Check back soon for the next thrilling installment

Clear skies! (I pray!)

Mark

[bcfc1979]

chin up mate! i was waiting over 2weeks for my first light........and im sure many others have had longer waits :-)

[msinclairinork]

Joys of living in Orkney mate!

Anyways it's not all lost time as you do learn a lot tinkering inside too.

Good luck,

Michael

[RogerTheDodger]

Funnily enough, I re-centered mine last night as well to see if I could improve it

[solarwallace]

No chance of the weather improving I'm afraid. My new scope's on it's way and my wife picks up her new car tomorrow with one of those 'auto' roof things ...

[G2EWS]

I think it was 4 weeks for me and that was the only time I have used it since buying after Astro Fest the beginning of February!

Going to SGL6 for hopefully my second attempt, but the forecast looks dire at the moment! Although I did see a glimpse of light for Sunday night!!!

Regards

Chris

[Horus]

It was a fortnight for me...................well worth waiting for , beleive me !

[Geno]

Pick up my new mount on Saturday so that will be Cyprus doomed to cloudy nights for a couple of weeks.

Guess it will give me time to figure out how to use it !!

[sbooder]

Only a week...taking the average you have three more weeks to wait!

[MikeD]

I'm afraid you will have to get used to long waits between clear nights, it's just part of the game unfortunately.

Mike.

[Brent]

It was only 4 nights for me...sounds like I was lucky!

I really feel for you though - I was itching to get started but the building anticipation was almost as good as first light itself.

[Adamski]

Hi,

you could always learn how to collimate while you wait if you haven't already done so.

I have only just learnt myself this week thanks to some advice from peeps on the forum.

Enjoy your new toy,

Adamski

[Geno]

It's April in Cyprus, pick up new mount tomorrow, and it's forecast rain and cloud for the next week, brilliant!!

[ianpadley]

About this time last year, I ordered a rather nice little WO meg 72. Firstly was away on biz when it came, so the missus unboxed and confirmed all was well. 'wait till you see this it's lovely' she said. Boy, was I excited to get home! BUT.... stuck abroad for days with the wretched volcano and when I finally got home...great skies and volcano dust.

Its all part of the game I guess

Ian

[Geno]

About this time last year, I ordered a rather nice little WO meg 72. Firstly was away on biz when it came, so the missus unboxed and confirmed all was well. 'wait till you see this it's lovely' she said. Boy, was I excited to get home! BUT.... stuck abroad for days with the wretched volcano and when I finally got home...great skies and volcano dust.

Its all part of the game I guess

Ian

Yes and because I told my non-astro friends a while ago about the curse of new kit I am now getting blamed for the bad weather to come

[Specman]

Well more than 5 weeks now and counting and still no first light on the new kit!

Now the damn sea fog season has arrived as everything tries to warm up!

Still not a single leaf on the tree's here either!

Clear skies all!

Mark

[1 of 5]

Only a week...taking the average you have three more weeks to wait!

That saves me asking one of the questions I had - thanks. I guess I was lucky in that I had a (admittedly poor) view of Saturn the night after I got my kit.

[Andy79]

I had to wait 3 weeks for my first light...and it kinda made up for it having to wait so long!