LollipopNeb

To me they don't really show as blobs, they rather show as very sharp pinpoint white dots throughout the sky. I will try knuckle through and hope for a good "first light" soon 😛

I am going to stick to this method rather than getting frustrated with the difficult ones thanks for your response.

You are right, I am at around lat 57N, I've been struggling to get any true dark nights here. Wouldn't mind if being so north would come with advantages such as Northern Lights haha, which I don't have, though if I drive to the right place in Denmark at a certain time that would be different I will try focus more on Star Clusters when I get the chance, and avoid the very faint ones until I am more skilled and equipped. Thanks for your response.

Thank you so much for this in depth explanation. I have read through and I will try to do what you suggest by stop hopping in that manner. I have used Stellarium once before but that never crossed my mind to try it again. I believe this method will hopefully give me my real "first light". Andromeda is 100% one of my top objects to see, so I will for sure use your tips. M42 is also one of them but if I am not mistaken it is not in view for some time from Denmark, or I need to drive some distance to get a good position. M42 is very recognizable, so I imagine when that time comes around I will have no problems finding that one. I will try to use your method of drawing circles that correlate to my actual FOV. Thanks again.

It is just a white small dot, I can see many many of them, but no discerning detail of any that I've found up to yet.

Thank you for your response. I have been doing that as you stated, pointing the finderscope to where I believe the object is but to no avail. I have made sure the finderscope aligns with where the main scope is pointing. Ok thank you, I will try my hand at that book see if it helps.

Thank you for your response. I start my observing from around 11pm through to 2-3am. That is usually best times in Denmark. I've managed to see Jupiter and Saturn to quite high detail in my scope, I have not seen any star clusters yet, I did try one night, pointing it in the rough direction but again, didn't see anything. I have also tried slewing through rough areas of DSO which gave no results, i did that just to see if i was just pointing in the wrong place. I tried viewing Andromeda, and all I had was the same typical white dot in the sky, I have collimated my mirrors with both the non laser and laser collimator and it is in perfect collimation, and I am able to gain focus on the white "dots" in the sky to very crisp focus. Next chance I get I will try some of your tips to see if my results are any better. Are there apps and such you recommend to find DSO locations? Right now I use skyview free/lite, I'm assuming it is not the app's fault in my failed attempts at finding targets? as it has pretty high ratings plus I'm assuming my scope is capable enough of seeing quite a few DSO? Thanks again.

Hello I am new here, and been trying to figure out how to observe DSO. Firstly I will start with which scope I have, it is the Skyliner 250PX and I have eyepieces that range from 4mm, 10mm, 18mm and 25mm, also a 2x barlow. The issue I am having is that I search for easy DSO to observe (searched on Google), and when I point my scope in that direction I see nothing other than a white spot in the sky with no detail of the nebula/object to be seen. I have tried averted viewing, which I either am doing wrong or it is simply not working lol. Could I get any pointers how to see DSO while observing? I do not have the required equipment to do astrophotography. I live in Class 3 bortle skies, and I choose the nights wisely when to try observe to no avail. I try dark adapting my eyes too and letting the scope cooldown which seem to not help either. Thanks! Does it literally need to be pitch black in the sky to see DSO while observing? Like where you can see the milkyway with the naked eye?