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Originally Posted by Charla
and secondly if it is good enough, how can we learn how to do it?
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G'Day Charla,
Your scope is a great tool to start on DSOs!
Get yourself some star charts. There are good ones you can buy, but Taki's atlas is a great free set of charts downloadable from the web - there's a link somewhere in IIS.
Cartes du Ceil is a free skychart/planetarium software that you can also download.
One other suggestion: if you don't already have a planisphere - get one for your latitude (usually available in steps of about 5 degrees). Then you can simply dial up the time and date, and you can see what's visible in the sky now. It's a great tool to get you started on knowing your way around the sky.
By all means keep going! You've got the most expensive bit of the technology you need!
Al.