Thread: Cheap finder scope and ball head mount for barn door mount
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Old 03-07-2010, 12:13 PM
maxwolfie (Greg)
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Originally Posted by adman View Post
check out the Giottos MH 7001 on this page.

I bought one last year - very solid. This special price is about 1/2 what I paid...

Adam
Thanks Adam, that looks perfect.
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Originally Posted by rcheshire View Post
Not sure about cheap finder scopes - there are instructions here and there on the net, but I find bracketing and correcting star drift effective, if not time consuming. Immediate feedback with digital cameras is great for this.

You can get away without a finder scope for a while. Most of the frames taken on my DAD, were following alignment using an abbreviated drift method. Take a frame and see which way the stars are trailing - adjust polar and altitude alignment until you get nice round stars. It takes some practice but can be very accurate.

If your interested I can provide a bit more detail. Certainly, the best thing I did with my DAD was to make altitude adjustment easy to operate without disturbance to the mount. This makes polar alignment with or without a scope much easier.

Thanks, I think I'll see how I go without a finder scope to begin with then, and then add one once I reach my limitations

Btw, what's a DAD?
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