Thanks for the tip! My biggest problem right now, however, is just getting out under some nice dark skies. They seem to be disappearing. My former dark sites are no longer accessible, just gotta find s new one. We have a public viewing session at our club observatory tomorrow night, looking forward to that.
I live on The Jersey Shore. The Atlantic Ocean is about eight miles due east of my back door.
You might expect there to be a lot of light pollution but in reality there isn’t much. A little in the summer but the rest of the year is very clear.
When there’s a new moon it’s very nice and dark.
I can’t help you too much there. Before I retired, I lived in the middle of Savannah, GA, and, any “Yard” astronomy I did there was limited to the Astronomical League’s Urban Astronomy Club. I HIGHLY recommend that as it gives you practice in finding things without GoTo.
My club also had a nice dark-sky site in the middle of a blueberry farm west of town. Usually it was VERY dark, but, in the Summer, in South Georgia, it was VERY wet.