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Aktar
Welcome to IIS. Well done on a great scope!
I am in Victoria so cannot be much help with groups in Western Sydney.
As you have been viewing the moon I assume you are basically familar with the scope and the finder?
If so there are many easy target that you can track down. Number one is the Great Orion Nebula or M42.
First try to locate the belt of Orion with the naked eye. They are 3 fairly bright stars running in a line roughly east west. They can be found to the north at this time of year. Locate the esaternmost (right hand side) star in you finder then move the scope up. You will come across a large vertical scattering of stars and fuzzy patches. Find the brightest fuzzy patch, centre that in the finder then using you lowest power eyepiece see if you can find it in the scope.
It should appear as a large, bright nebula.
Malcolm
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