Jonathan & Jerry, glad to hear you've got your 12" scopes set up already and had a chance to do a bit of gazin' Congratulations.
If you need some weather to fulfill the new equipment curse, let me know I can send you some of BC's clouds, rain and cold temps. (I really need this awful weather gone by the weekend, cos moon or no moon, I want to try out my 10")
~Phill
-------------------- Sky-Watcher 250mm f/5 Collapsible Dobsonian
Sky-Watcher 102mm f/5 Refractor
EQ3-2 mount
Red-dot finder
TV Plossls - 11mm, 15mm, 25mm
Fraser Valley Astronomers Society, Abbotsford, BC
http://fvas.net