just joind this forum couple weeks ago,still trying to find my way about the forum. tha advise in endles and the ppl here very imformative, as im only a noob at the moment but willing to learn,would any one give me advise on the scopes im using cos all im seeing at the moment are star clusters

and no planets.

my main scope is the celestron nexstar 102 CLT computerised, read the instructions lined up with 3 stars and was amazed scope knew were all the constelations and planets were,but didnt see them lol im must be doing something wrong , mead series 3000 plossl 5mm multicoated lense wich is no doubt a good lense but eye straining to see any thing out of it, using my celestron. got 3 more eye lenses celestron 25mm, and 9 mm and super 10 eye releif. not sure wich is better for deep veiwing, i also have a skywatcher skyhawk 114pm with out ra motor,but seing nothing really spectacular as yet can any surgest a better lense for my scopes, would it make any difference getting a 2x barlow or tal for my celestron,mabeim just too impatient and not got the right night lol can some one help me thanks john the noooooob