For those of you who are both new to astronomy and to the club, I would like to help you get a good start. Most of you have seen photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, either on TV, in the newspaper, or perhaps in an astronomy magazine that crossed your path. Looking at these pictures triggered something inside you. I will have all those fantastic images right in front of my eyes.
Nothing is further from the truth.
To get those images of the deep sky, the professional astronomers and the telescope itself came a long way hundreds of years. What I am really trying to say is that to become an amateur astronomer requires some time. It implies that you have to make time to go and observe. You will put up with the frustration of not finding objects, and what is worse, not being able to even find the constellations. For this, a lot of patience is required.