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I drew around the scope contours, cut the outline and then cut squares inside the lines and did the plucking thing. It seemed to work fine.

It just means I can’t blame my tools.. just myself 🤣

About a year ago I had the dilemma of the bbhs mirror or the bbhs prism. It was the thought in my head that the mirror would make my refractor partly a reflector. This played havoc with me so I got the prism. It may sound daft to most people but it settled me 😎

Mines an az8, if az’ a are counter balanced all’s well 😉

I went for the prism one. It was lighter than expected. if I got that there would be no more dreaming about another.

I also put an 8inch on my az. No problem and adjust the leg length for a comfortable standing viewing height.

AZ’s rule 👍

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The 3rd photo is my favourite 👍

Welcome. The language will come. 👍

Sounds to me you are doing all the necessary’s. I have thought about an eyepatch over my viewing eye and I like pirates anyway 😁. I suppose it would keep the eye pupil good until you get on the eyepiece. As for the rdf, I believe it’s the glass coating as you see a tint to it in daylight. You will pick up brighter objects fine, ie bright stars and planets. The fainter objects is why people use the “both eyes” method. It works well for a lot of people. For the more faint details they move to the finder scope. I just use the rdf then “hop”. I find this works for me.

I believe the v1 and v2 were only sent to the Uk in limited numbers and we exported something of our own 😉

Rigel is good. You will find the glass is more clear and circle don’t obscure target and can be dimmed or set to pulse. I have one also have rdf. It’s horses for courses.

This is correct as the aperture where the dot is showing is reduced. For ease in finding the dot I start close then move away keeping it in view. I pick up the dot with one eye and open the second eye as I move back.

You are correct but to simplify the physics.. the peep sight/aperture sights as used on the Lee Enfield .303 developed around a hundred (ish) years ago (one eye closed) and the single point sight developed I think in the 1970’s (two eyes open). Both of these put the aiming dot or marker at the furthest possible distance from the users eye cutting down the margin for error.

I’m going to bed and will see how this thread had progressed in the morning.

Apparently you can get them with undercuts.

I’m pretty simple so that’s why this works well for me 😆

I think after my 12 hour shift I need to sleep as my kitchen light is getting dimmer than my red dot 🤣

A piece of film negative would probably work if you’ve run out of nail varnish.

I’m surprised nobody’s mentioned laser finders.

I tried the baader V and didn’t like the shape of the dot, it just didn’t seem to be a round dot on the one I had. Maybe it was just a bad example but it put me off of them.

So if I cans strip one down and put some current resistance in there so the the lowest setting is the highest setting and move down from that things could be sweet.

I find 2 eyes works well with rdf. One eye for the dot and the other for the target.

In the Uk we wouldn’t dream of putting any sight on a shotgun 🤣 there’s a brass bead on the end of the barrel. To be honest (and no disrespect to American shooters) it would be laughed at in Britain.