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Easing the frustration
Decided to ease my frustration with finding things in either one of my telescopes, by simply finding common "sky"marks (as opposed to "land"marks) with binoculars. I trust this is the right forum to post this in.
I got industrious with an old Tasco 7x40 zoom and manufactured an adaptor for a small travel tripod and also found the perfect use for a selfie stick recently won in a competition.
Using what I have learned from reading and referencing Stellarium, I am pretty sure I located 5 very common "naked eye" targets. As quoted in Stellarium, M42 the Great Orion nebula, 47 TUC globular cluster, C96 open cluster, C102 open cluster, and finally C103, the tarantula nebula.
I'm sure I missed some more prominent objects but these are the ones that caught my eye while scanning and I researched. Attached are some snapshots of the set-up I used.
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