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Hi Herschel,
good to see the setting circles and Wixey are working well for you.
Aside from what the others have said, how is your collimation?
Light pollution certainly hampers DSO observing in city areas, but more time I spend at my scope the more passion I'm developing for open clusters ..... and these should be easy to find from your back yard. But your collimation needs to be pretty good else it will look like your seeing seagulls or eggs.
No sure what tool you are using to find targets? Stellarium is very good but on a mobile device it is small and a laptop is usually either too big to have at your scope or too bright and effects you sight dark adaption. On the other hand if you do have an iPad or Tablet I can't recommend SkySafari highly enough. The $18 version is all you would need and it's amazing what is included for that small fee.
Paul
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