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Hi DD,
In your 10in dobs, Mars, with an appropriate eye piece should look like a small orange/red disc. A dot is usually a star.
Your post doesn’t narrow it down, but what I would do, google for the detail...
1.in daytime align your finder to the main telescope...this way you know what your pointing to. You can’t find anything looking though the main scope alone. Even the moon at the beginning!
2. If possible look at something very far away in the daytime (NOT THE SUN!!!) with the widest eyepiece you have (longest focal length) and focus, this will get you somewhere close to focus for nighttime. This step is just so that we know your near the correct focus as you’ve never used a scope before, and it’s all very daunting at night time.
3. At night, get mars in your finder and then it should be in your scope, roughly in focus....then focus on it. Change eye piece if you have one with a shorter focal length, which will magnify mars up a bit..... Mars is currently a very obvious, massive red orange ball to the naked eye. But your app will ID it for you.
I hope that helps.
Hemi
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