Re: Looking for advice on finderscopes.

Tony Flanders wrote:
> Mind you, given a choice between a unit-power finder *or*
> a finderscope, I'd choose the former, as long as my main
> scope had a reasonably wide maximum FOV.

I'm sure Tony knows this, but this is a personal choice, of course. I'd
make the opposite choice myself, because I'm able to use my finder as a
unit-power finder, too, simply by keeping both eyes open and watching
the crosshairs. It's a bit tough to do from dark skies, since it's easy
to lose the crosshairs, but I've learned to watch for stars being occulted
by the crosshairs to get them back again.

It seems this is not a universal skill, so those who find it hard to do
will probably prefer a unit-power finder. (I do have a Telrad on my dob,
and while I enjoy using it, I'd enjoy using an optical finder more. Not
enough for me to swap it out, so far, though.)

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