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I have an 8" newt with no finder on and think the above advice is good, however with my scope the tube is too wide and low to sight along it properly so I align it roughly in the area and slightly above what I want to see and swing the scope from one side to the other and then adjust the altitude down a bit, do another sweep and keep doing that until you find it. It takes a while but I find that I find all sorts of things I'm not looking for as well, Stellarium is handy for finding out what they are. A low power ep is the best thing for that. Or you could just cruise around Cassiopea which is about on the milky way, plenty of things to stumble across there.