Thank you to Rick Murray for giving me a guided tour of my telescope and the night sky on Saturday evening. Taught me about collimation – a LaserMate Deluxe has been ordered. From his driveway in Pine Island we saw – at first – a lot of clouds. Could make out Venus and Jupiter
revealed if we were patient with the cloud cover. Gibbous Venus and Jupiter with two moons on each side as well as rings with 10mm lens.
Saw galaxies M81 and M82 in the same field, M34 and M35 in Gemini, Crab Nebula, Orion Nebula with easily seen trapezium, Beehive in Cancer, Double Cluster in Perseus, the Pleiades. Looked for the Dumbell ??
My new finder scope is working well – wasn't much use with out the primary mirror aligned! On to bigger (or is that smaller?) things. B