chrisward
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My daughters bought me an Astromaster 130EQ for christmas, love them lots. in the very few weather windows we've had since then I've managed to catch the moon, jupiter and the orion nebula. I'm really struggling with the red dot finder on the scope, I have to keep putting on and removing my glasses to see those tiny red dots! Any suggestions?
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An RDF can be (is) strange. The idea is that you do not look at the red dot. You look through and past the RDF to whatever object you want to see, then you move the scope+RDF so that the dot is over the object. Remembering to look at the object not the dot. Usually the dot is far too bright as well. Takes some getting used to and many cannot. Problem is the housing is so big that you automatically look at the housing and the eyes focus on that. So you should not need to remove+replace your gl...
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