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Originally Posted by wavelandscott
This is the reason that I really enjoy my Telrad...
Also, you can get "the bullseye" rings on a clear piece of plastic and then use that over your chart to get a feel for where to look for faint fuzzies...it works a treat.
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Yep, I think I'm sold.
It was especially difficult for me on saturday night, with my brother having a scope with a cheap (but obviously unmagnified) red dot finder and me, with this telescope in itself finder. We were making headway on naked eye observation of constellations but as soon as we started looking in our scopes, I couldn't figure anything out and we certainly couldn't really compare.
Luckily, I happened upon 47 tuc, which I'm quite impressed with myself in that I sort of guessed / could see it naked eye with reference to the closest bright star, which allowed me to give him a base with which to find it, which he did.
Little bummed out I found the best cluster first, though.