I spent the day cobbling a wooden adaptor for my C5 to the CG5 mount, and
the finderscope to the C5; both a boodge, but have to start somewhere, it
won't be cloudy for ever.

Not a very clear night, Polaris invisible, so I pointed the big N on the
tripod at my best guesstimate for North and had cranked 51-ish deg on the
base.

I'd lined up the finder on a treetop about 50 yards away during the day.

The results were awesome - I found Sirius with the finder, it was in the
32mm eyepiece, so I centred it, realigned the finder, and worked down to
12.5 centering and adjusting the finder.

There was a bit of confusion over which knob to turn, but it didn't last
long.

I was then able to get Sirius in my 4.8mm finder, and track it dead easy,
in spite of the lack of setting up. I could even hang on to it well
enough to finally zero in the finder crosshairs.

I've never been able to get an object in that eyepiece before.

I then found Mwossname in Orion's sword in the finder, and it was right
there in the scope. In the short eyepiece too, though it didn't do it
justice.

And all on a pretty manky night.

The scope stayed where I put it, but still allowed hauling round the sky,
and the final tweaking in on the slomo knobs was a doddle. It stayed put
while I changed eyepieces.

If I lost the object due to leaving it too long, I only had to tweak one
knob to find it again.

Goto-ing was never like this!

Thanks for all assistance, no doubt I'll be back with more questions when
the dust has settled

mike