RE: Got myself a Celestron AstroMaster kit on sale for the telescope. 2 new lenses, a ...
Pixelation like effect could be from time of night you were using it. If it was a little after sundown like 8:30 you might be seeing a wavy blur like effect from turbulent air due to the ground still cooling from the suns heat. There could have been turbulent air higher up in altitude that youre trying to see through.
You may not have truly been in focus and needed to tweak the focus a bit.
I believe you have a refractor telescope. A nice one at that. They're the kind where theres a lense on the front end, a long tube and an eye piece at the be back. As opposed to a reflector or newtonian telescope where the front is open and the eyepiece sicks out the side. Anyways with refractor telescopes theres a thing called chromatic aberration. The outline of the object youre looking st tends to be a little wonky. Fuzzy looking or changes colours a bit. Could be that too. Google refractors and chromatic aberration.
Could have been from it getting closer to the horizon, as I couldn't find it earlier when looking. But it's hard until I work out a nice place to go where it is also safe to be out at that time of night.
I believe it was in focus as I slightly kept adjusting both ways and it didn't get any better, would be the chromatic aberration more than likely and if I find it again, maybe it will be different when viewed.
This is a pretty good telescope, I checked prices and it was about $450 for it in AUD, decent anyway. One I want will be about $1000 someday.