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Thank you, yes it was fairly clear here, the only problem apart from weather that I have is trees. Will take advice and try again. 

Great, will do this, many thanks for help, will be in touch again soon. 

4 minutes ago, John said:

I would leave the Barlow Lens out for now - it's going to create very high magnifications which makes finding anything much harder !

Is your 200P the equatorially mounted version or the dobsonian ?

Most important thing (what ever scope you use) is to make sure that the finder scope is very closely aligned with the view through the main scope. This makes finding things so much easier.

Use low power eyepieces to start with as you get used to finding and observing, eg: the 25mm.

 

I was using the barlow lens 2.5 with the super 10 and then I tried the super 25 these were the eye pieces that came with the dob, I have the 200p classic

Hi I'm a real newbie to telescopes, astronomy, I have the skywatcher 200p and I'm wondering should I be using a barlow 2.5 lens, struggled to see the moon through the telescope last night, just not sure what I'm doing wrong. I had a intey 70m not long ago and the moon was amazing in that, Ive read reviews on the 200p and can't believe I haven't seen anything brilliant yet, so I must be doing something wrong.