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Moon won't rise until 8:47, so say from 8pm or earlier. face west ie where venus is. focus on venus, so you get diffraction spikes nice and clean. then move your scope higher and higher to get to antares, up and right is where the good stuff is.
start with your biggest eyepiece, i would suggest your 2" 26mm and then when you have found M7 or M6 the butterfly, go down thru your eyepieces 25mm to 15 to 9mm to see closer and closer. Some objects do not need close ups, there are better observed with your biggest and widest field of view!
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