[Shep]

I finally finished reading the manual for my scope yesterday and fooling around with the settings on it.

I have a Celestron Astromaster 130

It came with a 10mm eyepiece and a 20mm erecting eyepiece.

What things can you recommend to get to spiff it up and enhance viewing power.

Also how can I better find stars and planets with it, it has a star finder which just seems useless, I get better luck just pointing in the general direction which is pretty unlucky sometimes lol. I got up at 5 am this morning to try look at Venus and I could easily see it with my naked eye but trying to view it in the scope just wasnt happening.

So on my immediate shopping list so far is a good reference book and what else?

A barlow lens?????

Moon filters etc????

Whats the essentials I should get to spiff it up?