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G'Day Owyman,
Welcome to Iceinspace.
Sorry you're disappointed with the performance of your scope. There are a couple of things to note.
The 130x magnification is the absolute most you can expect from your scope, but to gte it you will need the appropriate eyepiece, and to use in a satisfying way you will need good / excellent seeing conditions.
Your 10mm EP will give you 90x magnification and your 25mm EP will give you 36x magnification (900mm/25mm = 36).
The seeing conditions, we have much less control over unfortunately. "Seeing" is the steadiness of the atmosphere. At high magnifications you will see the sky moving and waving about. The more it moves the worse the seeing, the steadier the better. Bad seeing blurs what you can see and image (if/when you get into imaging).
Another factor that may adverse affect your viewing is scope cool down time. If your scope is still warm when you look through it you will see distortion and blurring like bad seeing even if the sky is good. This is cause by thermal currents in and in front of your scope. Set it up early and allow it plenty of time to cool as the temperature drops before you start viewing. The serious guys here do a lot of observing in the early morning hours (when the seeing is best) and have their scopes out all night to cool, and the imagers embed temperature probes in their scopes and actually monitor the difference in temperature between the scope and the air.
Lastly, expectations may be another factor leading to your disappointment. You should see craters and formations on the moon, no problems. You won;t see any features on Venus, but you may be able to make out the phase (shape of the illuminated part). On Mars, I doubt you'll see much detail, it is just so small. Jupiter you'll see the 4 Galilean moons and hopefully transits of them maybe, and in ideal conditions you should see the the north and south equatorial bands. Saturn of course you'll see the rings.
I hope that helps.
Al.
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