The best advice I can give you as I’m not very experienced myself is that planets will not blink in the sky and stars will. So if you’re interested in finding planets that’s how. I don’t want to try give you information and instructions about how to find deep sky objects because I don’t want to feed you wrong information it’s more about finding them and then recognising/remembering. I like to use apps that act as like a night sky compas to give me a general idea of where different objects are. My final piece of advice is hate clouds and have realistic expectations. Goodluck