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Originally Posted by WestAusChris
I have only used my 6" for 3 days and already have a stiff neck from bending down and twisting to look through the OEM finder on the dob.
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Telrad and Red Dot finders aren't going to fix your stiff neck issue.
Get a right angle finder instead.
https://www.bintelshop.com.au/Product.aspx?ID=6877
Won't help your budget any, as it is more expensive than the Telrad!
I have one, and love it, although I literally used mine again for the first time for 2 years, and there is a little rubber o-ring that disintegrated in it, which is making it wobble around. Outside of that (which should be easy enough to fix) it was the easiest finder I used, especially with an SCT, where finding the pole means the finder is upside down "under" the scope in the polar home position.
I also have the bintel multi-red-dot finder, but anything more than the first light setting is too bright (even that is annoying).
When I had everything setup on my SCT, I had a green laser, the RDF and the right angle finders, all aligned with my main scope and the guide scope. It is quite good to get rough position with the laser, then step up to the RDF, then the right angle finder, then the guide scope, then the main scope. It was like having 5 levels of zoom!
Turbo