First light for the second-hand Vixen A80mf 3" refractor I bought for a good price on eBay this week.
Generally very pleased. Tripod not so good (as I knew it wouldn't be). Trying to remember how to work an undriven, non-GOTO GEM mount again, after having the luxury of more high-tech kit for the best part of two decades.
But I was very pleased with the first results through the scope itself. It was nearly a full moon, so my targets were limited. Well, really limited to one. But I had some beautiful crystal-clear "snap-to" lunar views. A tiny amount of green chromatic aberration around the lunar disc, but really I was looking for it, the scope is a cheapish achromat after all.
All in all, happy!
This scope is going to be my "grab'n'go scope" (as our American cousins call them), but it may well also be pressed into service as my daytime solar scope.
Next step, to mount it on the new Celestron AVX mount and see how we do then!
