Illuminating Instrument Panel on Training Cessna

I’m a complete novice, and in doing the flight trainings, the instrument panel is generally in shadow and very hard to read unless I zoom in, but then I can’t see out the window. For example, it tells me to reach 55 knots before taking off, but I can’t read the speedometer! Is there any way to illuminate the instrument panel?
Thank you.

The C152 has a dome light you can switch on . Its the far left white switch beside the external lighting switches. There is no back lighting of the gauges.

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Or press ALT-L to turn your flashlight on.

Thanks all for the help!