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I have great difficulty finding a bright star with a straight through finder using one eye open and one shut like when shooting a rifle. But it is much easier when one keeps both eyes open.
If all you want is bright stars for calibration - try that first.
If it's still annoying, while a Telrad is the best, cheap little red dot finders are plentiful on Ebay. They weigh little. Just find a screw somewhere on your telescope, take it out, screw part of the red dot finder base down into that screw hole, and use a piece of double sided mounting tape on the other side.
On some of my telescopes, I've screwed down the actual mounting base that the red dot finder slides into. On others, I've used red dot finders with a curved base with screw holes.
Then its a case of red dot finder on the star, look into straight through finder and centre it exactly.
Cheers,
Renato
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