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Howdy Newb - nice to hear your experiences. I'm a newb here myself and had to chuckle when I heard about your synchronised scope and cloud arrival - same happened for me. (I think this is a universal rite of passage!)
With your eyepieces - the 10 will give you 2.5 x the maginification of the 25mm eyepiece. Hence more detail. Funny thing at the beginning is that we all think the function of the scope is to maginfy - the more the better. It's actually to gather light - make faint things visible and add in some magnification and you start to see something. That's why the stars themselves are generrally unexciting - they are soooo far away that no matter (within reason) how much we magnify they will still just be points of light. Your 10mm will get you the rings of saturn and the bands on Jupiter along with moons. For the good old bug bright moon filters screwed into the inside barrel of the eyepiece will reduce eyestrain and bring out detail.
Have you got star charts, a planisphere or any planetarium type software? These are a must if you want to know here and when to look at what. I found stellarium (free download) absolutely inavaluable - if you do a search here you'll find the link.
Anyway good luck with it all - it's a facination!!!! Regards from one newb to another.
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