Chris
I always do an initial alignement in daylight of course being careful to NEVER point scope anywhere near the sun!.
Pick a reasonably distant object, a branch on a tree, TV aerial, I use a chimney poit on a house a couple of blocks away.
Find it in your scope with your lowest power EP then adjust the finder so it has the cross hairs on the target.
This will get it close enough so at night pick a bright star, line up with the finder on it, then centre it in the FOV of the main scope, then adjust the finder. Once you have done this a couple of time, it conly takes a few seconds.
Malcolm
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