This will sound trivial to most.
After a lot of reading/researching and some inevitable frustrations, combined with some stupid questions on here (I am a very new observer), I raced home tonight, did a very quick setup of the telescope (Celestron 4SE) and very quickly aligned using the moon. Had some fun looking there and enticed the good lady wife to come and have a look. She liked the moon (now that we have a variety of eye pieces) and we spent some time on that.
She was tired and wanted to retire for the evening.
I then quickly trained the telescope on Jupiter, after some mucking around, what a site
. The wife (Kim) had a look and she quickly awakened, the eyes lit up
, and she was awake, and very inspired. We spent a good 30-40 minutes changing eye pieces a couple of times but mainly swapping "ownership" of the telescope and had some great views is Jupiter and three of the moons.
This is our first "real" accomplishment and we had a great night. As I say, this is trivial to some but we greatly enjoyed the evening. And, BTW, this was all done about 5 feet from our front door.
Avery big thank you to all that have taken the time to answer my stupid questions. We are looking forward to lots more as soon as possible.
Cheers
Andrew