When first starting the best accessories are a pair of binocs and a planisphere. While your scope is cooling just cruize about mapping the constellations and getting familiar with the layout of the sky.
Don't try to do too much each session. Try picking one or two constellations and have a good dig around in them with the bincos and scope and repeat this a few times (good themes can be sourced from Sky and Telescope or a basic star atlas). Quickly you will become very familiar with surprisingly large parts of the sky which will make starhopping easier.
Try to make haste slowly. Bite off too much and its all too confusing.
Keep looking up
