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Originally Posted by overlord
Fascinating!
3) I may also use it for astro if I buy a polar align scope! Hmmm! I don't see myself using a right-angle finder, to me that isn't a finder at all! More like a 'hider'.
Thanks guys!
Feel free to keep going!
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There is NOTHING easier to use on a manual telescope than a Telrad/Red Dot finder coupled with an Right Angled Correct Image Finderscope. I have that set up on my 14.5" dob, on my 8"SCT, on my 5" Mak and last night used it for the first time on my 4" achromat.
A Right Angled Erect Image Finder (with mirror image view) is indeed pretty useless for me.
At 4am this morning I was using my Celestron 4" Achromat f/5 mounted on a Celestron/Vixen slow motion control, sitting on top of a camera tripod, aiming nearly directly overhead. Using the red dot finder plus the 6X30 Right angled Correct Image finder - it was simple picking off Messier Objects. I know it would have been a very painful exercise trying to use a 6X30 straight-through finder to do the same thing, which was the reason I replaced it the other day with the Correct image finder.
Regards,
Renato