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Hi Josh!!
Ahh!!!...no...you're not an idiot..but as with most of us we learned using a planishpere or starmap and by using the bright...or key stars in the colstellations..then it's a case of trial and error..sweeping the sky through the eyepiece until....having setting circles on your scope and using one of the many software/freeware which can give you the altazi co-ordinates on the night you wish to view..and if you have a laptop..even better!!
At the moment I'm finishing a experimental converter from R.A. Dec to altaz..(fingers crossed!!)
Cheers!
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