5x24 Astronomical Telescope Finderscope Optical Finder Riflescopes with Sight Bracket Crosshair Black no monocular

New astronomers, Michael here and thank you for tuning into my channel. In this episode, I will show you how to align a finderscope. I received a couple of comments in my equatorial mount video describing a problem that many new astronomers face. Basically, when they center an object in the finderscope, then look through the OTA’s eyepiece, they don’t see that same object. If you’re a more experienced astronomer, the first thing you would suspect is that the finderscope may not be aligned. Using your finderscope is just one process in a series of alignment steps of ever increasing magnification. For example, my first step is to point the telescope in the general direction of the object. And then I use my telrad to refine the alignment. Then I use the finderscope to further align it, and finally, use the eyepiece. They must all be pointing in the same patch of sky. So by process of elimi