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Hi, and welcome to IIS.
There's a little program you can download off the net for free called "TUMOL" or The Ultimate Messier Object Log.
With it you will be able to locate many of the brighter deep sky objects that are within reach of your scope. You can print off finder charts and photo's of them as well.
Another great freebie is "The Virtual Moon Atlas"
The first book you should get is Astronomy 2007 by Quasar Publishing. You'll find it at most bookstores. It is a month by month ephemeris of just about everything that is happening up in the sky. It has a great set of star maps in it as well. I used to carefully remove and laminate them for using outside.
Have fun with your new scope.
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