I have a 127mm mak with a 25 and 10 mm piece. I can clearly see jupiter and its 4 major moons as well as jupiters cloud belts and the great red spot as well as saturn and it's rings but I can't see any deep space objects. Where should I look to maybe see a high concentration of them and what can I expect to see ( galaxies and nebula's) exery pic I've searched for on the web are prolonged exposures with photoshop color added. So what can I see with my 127mm mak and it's eye pieces? Please help!

Pick up a copy of the book Turn Left at Orion, either in your local library or at a bookstore.

It's a great book for someone who just got their first telescope, and it answers all the questions you asked.

Visit a local astronomy club. You can find lists of them online, such as at the Sky & Telescope website.

Read the messages in the Observations and Equipment section here, there is loads of great advice.

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The Orion nebula, M42, is a good starter object even in city skies. During the summer, try the Ring Nebula in Lyra. For fainter objects, get as far from big cities as possible.

Beginners can acquire the skill for finding faint objects by practicing on brighter ones with binoculars, and then with the finder on the telescope. I started with the aid of Norton's Star Atlas as a teenager, and I learned star-hopping skills by doing a lot of it.

I suggest you start with M-31, the Andromeda galaxy. It is spectacular and fairly easy to find. But it might be more dim and smaller than you expect it to be, since all the photos show it as large and bright. All other galaxies will be smaller and more dim than that one, so it will give you something to judge size and dimness by.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_Galaxy

Then I suggest looking for the Ring Nebula which is M-57. It will be very tiny, but a weird thing to look at.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_Nebula

Then look for the Crab Nebula.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_Nebula

You might have to find a very dark place with no city lights to see some of the more dim objects.

One of my simple complaints about the Hubble images is that some amateur astronomers get into it thinking they can buy a scope and point it up at the sky- and see those pictures.

Now... That sounds weird for me to say but... For some folks, it seems almost a let down
I mean, here this guy is, navigating through webpages of awesome images... And then he spends a couple hundred dollars out of his pocket- and all he gets to see is some craters on the Moon. Heck, i saw more colorful ones on faces back in high school.

Astronomy (at least from my perspective) is not an interest.
It is not a hobby...

Astronomy is a Passion.

It's not unusual for me to look at Sam5's example- Andromeda- only with the naked eye. Or The Pleiades or whatever else I can spot.

Because then my mind takes over for my eyes.
I stop seeing just a point of light, I see other worlds. I see evolution, celestial mechanics...

I'd love to have a Big Scope. Attach a camera to it and take pictures like some of the Beautiful pieces in the Astrophotography forum.
But in the meantime, There's BAUT. Books. Even the Net. All of which provide the True Gold behind the images- The Knowledge. The wonder, the learning and the comfort even in knowing that I can spend the rest of my entire life and never run out of new things to learn, new things to be amazed by.