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Old 17-03-2009, 10:05 PM
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erick (Eric)
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Originally Posted by xnomad View Post

Secondly I like to use both eyes with the finder so that I know the star in the finder is the star I'm looking at with my naked eye. This won't be possible with a diagonal on the finder.
I'm with you. Straight through finderscope with both eyes open.

But I have a beauty. An erect image straight through with illuminated crosshairs - bought from Japan. See my post in this thread:-

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...ad.php?t=40879

When I can, I use a laser pointer on the scope which usually gets me directly into my widefield eyepiece, bypassing the finderscope.

ps. I'm now a "lazy" user of an Argo Navis so I don't have to look through the finderscope as much as I used to.
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