Finderscope/Red-dot finder for Star-Adventurer 2i

[WilliamAstro]

Just started using my star-tracker and my only problems are that I can have a rough time finding things. I do own a guide kit but I am paving my way through that but if I can't use guiding for a night I need to find an alternative way to find celestial objects with binary aid, Like a red dot finder/finderscope I have seen a forum post of someone having a red-dot finder attached to their dslr with their star-tracker.

Any adapters for this?

Cheers

William

[Nugs]

Depending on your camera manufacturer, some sell a hot shoe mounted RDF (I have one for my Olympus), alternatively, by fitting a L-bracket to your camera, you should be able to attach a generic RDF via arca-swiss mounts.

Peter Zelinka did a good tutorial on using an auto-guider with a DSLR, the mounting principles would be the same for guide scope or RDF.

https://www.peterzelinka.com/blog/2019/4/auto-guiding-with-the-skyguider-pro

n.b. The L-bracket version will be more stable than the hot shoe mount. 👍