Sorry for the late reply,

Got the telescope yesterday, been testing it out. A little disapointed, but preety sure that it wasn't because of the telescope, reading up on telescopes before hand I was quite aware that I shouldn't have too high expectations when paying only 60GBP for a beginners scope, when everyone talks about paying between 200-400 for one.

Where did the disapointment come from??? British weather! Always cloudy. Got the chance to see some stars yesterday, but stars on their awn seem rather boring. Looked for M45 and the Andromeda Galaxy but couldn't locate it. Another bad thing for me is that I live in London, AND in a block of flats, so as you can guess, my first observations were through a window on the forth floor. The light polution didn't help, and I'm guessing normal polution also played a part.

Looks like I will need to wait for some clear skies and someone to drive me to a place with less light polution (being lazy and not applying for a driving licence some time ago wasn't a good idea). My girlfriend and my brother also seems a little interested in the telescope aswell so I guess it shouldn't be that difficult to convince them.

Also, with the moon on the other side of the flats didn't even allow me to do any lunar explorations, (not that it wasn't explored already).

Anyways, once again, thank you for all your help and advice. I don't think I made a wrong decision with buying the telescope. Looks like it's worth a lot more than the 60 that I paid for it. Quite a good mount. Not that happy with the eye pieces, but will probably invest in a few more in the future. With the interest that I currently hold for astronomy, I think I will be asking a lot more questions in the near future.

Now, lets hope the clouds bugger out the way.

Tamer