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Thanks Raymo and Rob,
I will try with the higher power. What I have been doing is going up from beta crucis to delta crucis in the finderscope and then going up further the same distance in the finderscope, and then looking in my 25mm eyepiece and not seeing anything that looks particularly blue or remarkable even after moving things around.
Yesterday I printed out Rob Horvat's tutorials and put it in plastic sleeves but I don't have any other printed material. I have been using Stellarium on my laptop and recently my phone along with an app called Skyeye to find interesting things to try and search for with my scope. Then if I find it with the scope, I look it up on wikipedia for some background information. Apart from the open clusters, I have more luck with the globular clusters and the brightest and largest nebulae than anything else and am yet to see a planetary or a galaxy.
Incidentally, yesterday was clouded out so I could not put your collective advice into action so I will try again and let you know.
Cheers!
Vijay
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