I personally think that for most objects the easiest way to find them is to first learn the constellations that you can see with your naked eye. Then get a good star chart for the night you'll be observing and when you want to find something faint see what stars it is near. First find the brightest stars that you can see with your naked eye (and manually point the telescope at that star), then move your telescope to the fainter stars until you reach the object you want. <br /><br />If you want to use coordinates to find an object, then how you do it depends on what kind of telescope you have. If it has an RA/Dec indicator, then presumably it's an equitorial mount. In that case, you would need to align your scope with the celestial pole before you can use the RA/DEC to find objects. To do this, you need to align the axis about which the RA moves with the celestial pole, if you live in the northern hemisphere you would want to get it so it's pointing basically at polaris (the north star). For the RA indicator to mean anything you also need to set the time in some fashion. If you have an electronic goto telescope, then you'll probably find a one-star or two-star align routine in the menu. The routine may ask you to set the time, then choose stars from a list and manually point to the telescope at them (you'll need to know how to find bright stars like Vega, Sirius etc by eye - so if you haven't done so already, get yourself a star-chart and start learning the constellations). If you don't have an electronic goto telescope, then after you do the polar alignment manually point the telescope at a star whose RA/DEC coordinates you know. Adjust the RA indicator so that the correct RA value is indicated when you're at the star. If you have a motor, you'll want to start it when the star is in your field of view. Once you're aligned you can move the telescope following the RA/DEC indicators to pre-set positions. (If you aligned on polaris rather than the actual celestial <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>