Just got the new telescope and got to take it for a test drive two nights in a row.  The first night, the calibration was off (and of course, I didn’t read the manual!) in that the scope was consistently about 15 degrees off to the West.  Discovered that the way to troubleshoot the scope in this case was to apply “Calibrate Sensors” so that the telscope knows where Polaris, or the North Star, is.  When I applied that on the second night, the scope worked great!  (I think I’ll need to calibrate again only because it was so windy that the scope was moving a bit in the wind).  The scope was able to align itself pretty decently to Sirius and Dubhe.  So, the first thing my wife and I slewed to was the Moon (just to test the slewing) and then decided that what we wanted to see was Pleiades (M45).  It found M45 pretty right on and with the microfocuser, the image came out very good.  As I’ve read, you don’t really see the nebulosity that you see in pictures (esp. with my suburban surroundings) but all the stars in the eyepiece looked very sharp.  It was pretty cold with the wind so we decided to just test a few quick objects and head back inside.  So, we then went to Mars (could make out some color) and Saturn (was able to make out the Cassini division!).  We played a bit between the Meade 26mm and the 2x barlow and well as some other eyepieces I had from the my first telescope.  With the wind, it was just becoming too difficult to enjoy the show but I was glad to confirm that the scope works and works pretty well.  Can’t wait to calibrate even better and to really enjoy sitting down and doing some observing — and then some astrophotography of course.  No regrets in investing in this scope — a bit heavy but manageable and it seems very promising!