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Originally Posted by astro744
I would think the Star Point finder is the same as any other basic red dot finder being a zero magnification pointing tool that uses a coated glass window to superimpose the image of a small red dot onto the night sky.
Make sure any brightness control is turned up to maximum and use both eyes. The dot will be at infinity. Move your head back a little away from the finder.
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As astro744 says, with any red dot finder, the only alignment necessary is to align the finder with the scope itself. The red dot just "hangs" in the sky, with almost no parallax - wherever the dot is hanging in the sky, that's where the finder is pointing, and assuming the finder is reasonably aligned with the scope, you should easily pick up your target with a low power eyepiece. It doesn't really matter whether you use your left eye or right eye, or whether your eye is close to or far from the finder - if you can see the red dot against the sky, you can target the scope.
The only comment I would make is that maximum brightness is fine for daytime terrestrial use or for finding the brightest planets and stars, but I use my red dot finder at close to lowest illumination, rather than maximum brightness, so that I can easily target fainter visual objects, not just the brightest ones. (At full brightness, the red dot can overpower the fainter stars.)
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