Help mounting this red dot finder please

[jonathan]

Hi,

I have this rather nice looking red dot finder but so far have been unable to find a suitable riser mount for my telescopes.  I purchased a riser mount for the finder but the base does not fit the typical Skywatcher / vixen finder mount.

I get quickly confused between all the different types of rails and mounts so I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction for a way to mount this finder on my Altair Astro, there is one finder base there already which I use with my finder scope (excellent, but not as quick as a red dot finder to use), I'm thinking maybe I need to attach a dovetail bar down the top of the scope rings and get some sort of rail adaptor that my red dot finder will fit onto.

This is the red dot finder:

The stand I bought optimistically hoping it would fit a normal finder base:

[paul mc c]

You will need a new shoe,i think, it is known as a williams type shoe.

[John]

I use one of these:

http://www.365astronomy.com/365Astronomy-Mounting-Base-for-Metal-Multi-Reticle-RDF-Red-Dot-Finder-TRAPEZOID.html

They do fit standard Skywatcher finder shoes.