Telrad owners with eq mounts

[Radders]

Just wondering where people with Telrads position the finder on eq mounts?

With some viewing of objects in the sky being in awkward positions, and the OTA having to be moved, do people position it on the things themselves?, top of the tube?, near the eyepiece?.

Also what's the minimum distance of an object to align the finder with the scope during daylight?

Regards

Radders

[West End Wendy]

I put my Telrad near the dew shield. I have a refractor on an EQ mount. Never have any problems viewing through it.

[Strugz]

Mine is up the top right next to the existing finder. That's on a small reflector. Works just fine

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[West End Wendy]

Can't answer your second question specifically, but as long as you align in daylight with something reasonably far away, it will get you close enough and you will just need to do a bit of fine tuning with a real star at night.

[Stephen]

I put mine where the finder used to be

I also don't bother with aligning in the day time, Jupiter is pretty hard to miss at night

[Tinker1947]

My reflector has a large jubilee clip and a platics strap position above the top OTA ring, so when it come to viewing anything i loosen the 2 rings spin the refector to the right position , and this puts the Telred and focuser in a normal viewing position, so i change my viewing from north to south i spin the tube to a better viewing angle...there is a thread with a picture of somebody elses scope setup like this, a month or so back..

[g0ibi]

I do the same as Tinker1947, although I have a Rigel Quickfinder not a Telrad.

[Strugz]

When I bought the Telrad 3 months ago I aligned it on a church tower a mile and a half away.

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[rory]

ive had mine a week or two . as kheldar says, can do it at night. i used jupiter.

ive a refractor on a e/q. as everyone else,i positionsed it up top near the dew shield.

[Radders]

Thanks for the replies....

Gonna put it on the rings, that way i only have to move the OTA. Also might use Jupiter to line it up as others have suggested. See how that goes.

Regards

Radders

[damp owl]

Mine is attached right next to the finder scope so in roder its focusser - finder - telrad. Was thinking about completely removing the finder scope and mount the telrad in its place as I rarely even take the dust caps off my finder scope now.

It is worth attaching via electrical tape or similar that wont mark the ota and can be removed easily just to see if you are comfortable with the position before permanently sticking down.

Adam.

[RikM]

I have my Rigel QuikFinders mounted next to the optical finders as well.

[rory]

i used some cable ties. works a treat .