Snoops a red dot or reticle finder does make things hard to find if you are learning the night sky, fortunately the odd 2nd hand magnified finderscope comes up sometimes for sale new or second hand at the forums. Your scope is capable of showing most all the local planets, but without great detail, and also bright deep sky objects under the 8th magnitude like the Orion nebula, Andromeda galaxy and various others that are even dimmer at dark sky sights with little light pollution.
Half decent eyepieces are the key to satisfying viewing as many others have said before, and the EP's you get with a scope are often lacking in terms of the width of the field of view but your super plossl's are probably good EP's. If the mirrors and plates of a scope are its heart and soul then the EP's are its brain, i can only recomend to use the search funtion on the toolbar above to help answer most basic questions at first.
Enjoy and clear skies to you and yours i often wish i owned a little Mak
