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Hi,
If you have one of the old, long tubed 900mm focal length 114mm reflector telescopes on a flimsy equatorial mount - it can be a useful telescope. I still have mine.
All it needs is a decent 6X30 finder scope attached to it - which you use with both eyes open when trying to locate some bright star or planet - and a decent 25 or 30mm eyepiece, and to be collimated properly. Really, given where you live you should get better views of galaxies with it than with an 8" telescope where I live.
Such telescopes often used to come with 5X25 finders which, when you looked inside had a little annulus which blocked more light to give sharp images, but which turned them into hopeless 5x10 finders. If your finderscope has that annulus inside it, just unscrew it and take it out. The image won't be as sharp, but it will be brighter and more useful.
Regards,
Renato
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