What's your first name? With an excellent 68º eyepiece design like the 24mm Panoptic,your telescope can show about a 4º TFOV(true field of view)section of the sky. That is over 8 times the diameter of the full Moon. That's 17 times more magnification than your naked eye can provide. A wonderful Messier object like the open star cluster Pleiades(M45) can easily fit into the eyepiece field of view. Brighter globular clusters like M13 won't be resolved but are neat to locate and the wider field of view using a lower powered eyepiece helps to reference it's location within the constellation Hercules. This helps to learn the sky even if your next telescope doesn't have GOTO. Using your 9mm eyepiece and the built in barlow there are a number of easy to split and colorful double stars that make observing a joy. By using your GOTO you can kind of stand back and watch the optical tube of your scope slew to different parts of the sky when finding objects. If you live in the northern hemisphere at around 40º n latitude like I do you get to learn pretty quickly that the constellation Orion is located in the southern sky and Ursa Major is in the n.w summer skies.
If you want more highly resolved and brighter planetary images you need a larger aperture scope and if your funds are limited you'll probably need more focal length in the scope as well. A 4 inch F/10 achromatic refractor or a 6 inch F/8 reflector do a much better job in accomplishing what you seek. IMO these 2 examples rate as major bargains.
For now use your little telescope,enjoy it and learn the sky.
-------------------- Kenny
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe." - Albert Einstein
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