Maybe you should go make some tea or grab a coke and come and sit down because I have to tell you something. I don't know how to say this except to just blurt it out. There is a good chance you'll be really disappointed with nearly every thing you see through your scope. There, I said it. It's out there in its nakedness. Sure, the planets will be fun - Saturn is so nice I'd own a scope just to see it once a year. Jupiter is nice, Mars is good, and you can't beat the Moon (and the Sun for that matter) ... but
once you start to look outside the solar system at very distant things ... the beauty of those objects becomes very subtle. If you are like me that subtle beauty is enough to keep you coming back, but for many it is a big let down.
The Hubble space telescope images and what you'll see in your telescope ARE NOTHING ALIKE. For instance, let's take a galaxy -- one of my favorites is M-82. Hubble images show a great display of a star burst galaxy, but through my eye peice you will see a whitish smudge of light, with faint darkened detail. I love M-82 through my scope, but most people will expect a brilliant image and, when confronted with something they can hardly see, are very disappointed.
I do offer this though, what you see at the eyepeice is the real light of that distant place. Light emited in the age of dinosaurs or before there was even life on Earth! Light from hundreds of millions of suns, just now arriving for you to see! When I package that experience with sitting in a dark field, a gentle summer wind against my back, crickets going mad in the brush, my dog dozing by my leg, a cup of coffee steaming next to my star atlas ... well, its just heavenly.
