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Hi Adam, welcome to IIS. If by focusing on the moon you mean being able to see detail with some clarity (such as the craters), then you absolutely should be able to get it to focus on planets too. The 3 most likely causes of not doing so are:
- scope is out of collimation (disregard if you were satisfied that this was achieved when you bought, and hopefully used, the laser collimator)
- scope was not pointed at the right target (a star will never show any detail but may appear fuzzy when out of focus or magnified too much)
- poor seeing conditions (atmospheric disturbance over your observing site can dramatically reduce the amount of detail you see)
Most reflectors show a black disk inside a bright one when defocussed so in order to focus, ensure this is not the case)
Light pollution can be ignored for what you are trying to achieve.
Hope that helps
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