Hi Howard,

thank you very much too for your detailed honoration :-) I myself like dark grey as background the most indeed. A very dark grey or even black appears unnatural to me. And "Yep!" ... 12" is in my eyes a very good size for a scope. In my case at first because of transport issues - without havin´a car - and havin biggest possible aperture under that circumstances.

During past years i had several chances to look under best conditions through scopes around more or less 20", on rare occasions up to 36 and 42".
And often/ mostly i was quite satisfied with what 12" has shown in comparison to these sizes. Seeing is often an issue here in Germany, so that smaller scopes can compete with the 20"+ category in many situations. At least in my opinion. But this is a philosophy by itself ;-)

However i´ll try to present some more sketches now and then to emphasize what 12" can do ;-)

Thanks again!

CS
Norman