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The snag with almost all finders - red dot, telrads and simple sights - is that for anything above 60 degrees altitude you have to be a contortionist to look through them without risking a permanent neck injury.
The best solution IMHO bar none is a push-to scope fitted with encoders communicating wirelessly with SkySafari on an iPhone or iPad, at a convenient viewing angle. Once calibrated, no matter where the scope is pointing it's easy to use SkySafari as the finder and put objects smack in the centre of the field of a telescope even at 200X. I've seen and used several scopes like this that had no traditional finders at all - and didn't need one. To the extent I'm now assembling such a setup, myself.
GOTO mounts are ok provided they actually work and the mechanical and optical axes are accurately orthogonal. But few scopes actually achieve the required mechanical precision.
Last edited by Wavytone; 01-02-2017 at 11:30 PM.
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