[Lismore Bloke (Paul)]

I agree with Torglen-boy (Duncan) and the other guys. I have a GSO 12" dob and the first thing I put on it was a Telrad red circle finder. It makes picking up bright objects, or fields to scan, much easier. As the others have also said, forget the 6-9mm eyepieces for now. I hardly use mine except on the moon and Jupiter and Saturn and then only on rare occasions when the asmosphere allows it. The most used eyepiece on mine is an old 2" 32mm Televue Wide Field and the next one is a Celestron 26mm Plossl. Nice bright wide field views. Just go out and scan around the milky way running up from the southern cross and up to Orion.

This web site has numerous posts and articles on improving dobs and the problem of sticky movement. The 10" dob is an excellent visual scope with plenty of good light grasp. It is designed to be a light bucket. High power views of planets require a long focus instrument, maksutov or refractor. Good luck, don't stress out, just enjoy scanning around and getting used to the scope. The collimation of the mirrors may be worth a look. Most of these things require adjustment out of the box, mine certainly did.