How to Align a Finderscope for New Astronomers
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- Aligning your finderscope is pretty easy and you can do this in under 5 minutes depending on how accurate you want it. Before you can align it, you have to make sure that you meet the following conditions:
1. Your finderscope has adjustable knobs. Some telescopes are fixed and therefore do not need to be adjusted.
2. If your finderscope is removable, tighten down the mounting screws to ensure it is solidly in place.
3. You are in clear sight of an object that is at least half a mile away, or about 800 meters.
4. You have eyepieces for your telescope handy.
Watch it now and let me know if you have any other advice to improve this process.
Clear skies and thanks for watching.
five years ago and still helping people like me. Thanks man
Of all the videos this is the only one were the guy doesn't try to show us how much he knows. he is showing exactly what you need to know as a beginner, thank you very much,
I like this guy, He talks to you and not at you like were all dummy's. I'm brand new to this world I'm sure it will be very fun and learning new tricks all is good. Thank you for you time to make this video.
*"I'm brand new to this world"*
lmao were you a sperm cell when commenting this?
AxA12 ...I didn’t want to be rude but I had to read it a second time double checking to see if that’s really what I read lol
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Well, were both just joking around.
I know ,I'm Sorry I misunderstood The first comment
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It's okay, but I'm also sorry Also
You explain things extremely well, and with a clear voice and not rushed. Excellent add-ons showing how it looks in the scope as well. Keep up the good work! Subscribed.
I appreciate your comments, Jimmy. Clear skies!
ditto
Several years later still helpful, thanks!
HE IS VERY DETAILED AND EXPLAINS THINGS CLEARLY THAT OTHERS MAY MISS
I use a Sky-Watcher telescope and this tutorial was really helpful! When I first got it, I couldn’t find Venus through my main eyepiece. I looked for days, trying to find a video explaining how this works. You’re really simple and to the point. Thank you!
We need more people like you, thank you for teaching us all about this wonderful world of Astronomy
I LOVE YOU- OMG you effortlessly explain it with 100% clarity and the way you elaborate on it is both charismatic and eloquent.
I inherited a 4.5 inch Celestron with an equatorial mount. Guess what, no manual or instructions of any kind.
I watched your set up for the mount and now this, aligning the eyepiece. Excellent videos. Thank you.
Saw the moon last night with my 20mm eyepiece. Magnificent!
I really appreciate that you took the time to make these helpful videos.
This is the first video I've watched concerning telescopes.
Thank you for posting this - thumbs up and I've 'subbed'
Michael, for a guy looking out at the cosmos, you're really down-to-earth! Thanks for your careful, complete, and thoughtful video.
Thanks for the easy to understand video! My wife bought me a dobsonian telescope for Christmas, and after assembling it I am just now getting around to adjusting it for use. Your video is a great help!
2:14 :' if it has a cover, I know it's obvious...' ( for me it wasn't obvious) so that information really helped me😂
Thank you. This was the next step up I was looking for! Soon I'll go outside and put this video to work.
I'd like to know a few more terms like aperture and what's next to know!
This must be one of the best tutorials on TH-cam. It might be a simple process but you explained it with such sincerity and detail.
Sweet, thanks. About how I thought it would be. Our telescopes are similar so hopefully the setup pretty much the same. It's arriving in two days!!
I watched five other videos, but I couldn't figure it out. You explained it very well and I was able to fix it! Thanks from all of us
I don't know why but this guy has such a soothing voice, it's nice for a change and makes everything a lot easier to process. It feels patient so it helps so much! Congrats you earned yourself a new subscriber :)
Excellent video. Very well made and you explained everything very clearly. Well done and clear skies
This was great! My telescope came with the worst instructions ever and I had NO clue why the red dot and what I saw in the eyepiece never matched up. Your video solved the problem I have been trying to figure out! I was ready to hurl the telescope over my fence in frustration, now I can't wait for tonight!
Good, clear explanation. As I go through this centering process I found that it was the view through my viewfinder that was upside-down and the view through the telescope was right side-up.
I don’t even have the same telescope but he explained it in a way that even an amateur like me understands. Thumbs up
Just got our Dobsonian 8” and this video is a life saver . This is our first telescope . Ty !
Good job. Even for non native English speakers is very easy to follow the instructions.
I know I just commented a few days ago but, using your guidance, I was able to get the telescope set up for all the grandchildren and a bunch of neighbor kids to see Jupiter and Saturn tonight. They ranged in age between six and fifteen and really got into it. Thanks for what you do.
Thank You for this video. I have just got back into astronomy recently and decided to try a completely different scope than I'm used to and am having an adjustment period. Your videos are very instructional and are making my adjustment smoother.
Thank you for taking the time to educate new astronomers like me!
Daaaaamn Bro..LOL. I thought my 50 dollar telescope was badass...Maaan you got a space center in your back yard! I wish you were my neighbor!
Valuable information from a really experienced gentle man. Thanks bro!
Thanks for watching.
Thanks New Astronomer! Just got a new refractor and was having a hell of a time sighting things. Worked great!
Thank you!!!!! No wonder I couldn't find Jupiter and Saturn last night! I aligned the finderscope and ready for the conjunction tonight!!!
best tutorial video. no one taught how to use telescope. thank u. i was returning my telescope but after this video i easily know to use.
Dude you're the man!!! Everytime I used my telescope it was pitch black and I couldn't see, I thought It was broken. I released I left my cap on the lense.
Yay! I thought my finder scope was broken until you mentioned there were knobs.... This really helped! thank you very much! Followed your instructions and was able to align my finder scope!
Thanks for instructions in alignment I’ve been fumbling around trying to align and you solved several problems in my alignment.
Thank you for explaining this process in a clear, step-by-step fashion. Subscribed.
Thank you so much. You explained very well💞
As a beginner, this is the best finder scope video I have seen, wish I would have saw it two weeks ago:-)
Hey thanks so much for these tips! I borrowed a telescope a few years ago, but couldn’t for the life of me set it up correctly! Since seeing you video, its given me the confidence to try again, and ive just received a telescope for Fathers Day, and ive used your tips exactly during the day, and i feel quite confident using it, focusing on several objects with the finder scope, and they appear in the telescope perfectly!
Dude your narrations are really easy to follow and I greatly appreciate all the information that you provide simplistic and not a whole lot of BS keep up the good work
A couple of tips:
If your finder scope has a removable eyepiece, when you've aligned it with low power eyepiece in main scope, insert a higher power eyepiece into finder and fine tune your finder aim and then use higher power eyepiece in main scope finally matching them up.
Beware of parallax! If you know or can reasonably estimate the size of the object you're using to align finder, then try offset aim on your target appropriately. Example; if a distant chimney has a hood or cover roughly about same size as difference between central axis of your main scope and your finder, then set finder aim at top and main at bottom of the cover (assuming finder is rotated right above scope for the job of course)
I hope those two tips make sense! ☺️
hello! could you give me a hand? i have a red dot finder and a skymax 127 eq 3-2. when i look through eye piece is reversed and upside down, and in the red dot finder looks normal, so it is being very difficult to align it good, and i have the diagonal piece. thank you!
Nice presentation, sir. Thank you
great video. u explain very clearly. simple and neat. thank you
Thank you! Great job teaching this skill, you were very organized and clear. I have been an educator for 40 years and appreciate that very much.
Thank you very much for this explanation for newbies to astronomy! This has been a huge help!
Thank you for explaining things in the simple manner that you did. Aloha. Dave
Thank you. Your tutorial was very well timed and you kept it simple which makes it much easier for novices like myself to follow.
Thanks so much for this instructional video. Very useful. I actually followed your advice and paused the video and at the end solved my problem even without finishing it. So now, I will watch the rest. Great job. Wonderful pace. Very instructive.
Thank you for such a clear explanation. Super easy to follow. I just bought my first telescope, and this helped a lot!!!
Great to hear!
Thankyou so much ! I bought a 10" Dobsonian yesterday and your advice about loosening the screws on the Finder telescope was a godsend
Good stuff, and thank you. I just unboxed my first telescope a few minutes ago, and as rookie astronomer these tips were helpful.
Thanks a lot! You made me see my first tree trough my new telescope!
I didn't even knew i had to adjust the red dot first.
Can't wait to see the moon tonight!
I'm brand new to astronomy, this video was great and so helpful, thank you!
Thank you for taking the time to record and share this video. It helped alot!
I just bought a CF600 from National Geographic’s and I learned so much how to use it now!!!
i like how you went into a but more detail than other videos i have watched really enjoyed it. ill be sure to rcomend this video to anyone who ask me how to allign a finderscope
Just unpacked my Celestron AVX 8” Newtonian telescope and was wondering were to start! Your video was instrumental in getting started down the right path!! Thanks!!
G'day Michael,
Thankyou for the impressive explanation of alignment of a telescope. I am going to try the skills that you provided in the video.
Very grateful to you. I'm in the Southern Hemisphere so there's no fixed star at the Southern Celestial Pole. The best attempt is to use the Southern Cross Michael. Sirius is the brightest of stars in the Southern sky. Alpha and Beta Centauri can also be used as they point either side of the Southern Cross. Anyway, thanks again and much thanks for your clear and patient presentation
Cheers from Melbourne Australia
Excellent video. Very clear and concise Perfect for us beginners. Thank you very much!
Thanks for helping me about aligning my finderscope
Great video! Very helpful. I don't understand why they don't have more right-angle view finder scopes. Your setup is awesome. You just have to move a few inches between the finder scope and the telescope eyepiece. What a great setup.
Very nice to see your videos Michael and thanks a lot!
Very good explanation, especially in the beginning when talking about the cover, I couldn't see anything too clearly Duh the cover was on. Received as a gift an old wooden tripod telescope and had no clue as to what I was doing until I saw this video, Thanks much for a Great Training video.
A very clear and well explained tutorial.
Many thanks from England. 👍
Thank you sir so much for your time breaking it down step-by-step thank you So far the gosh darn best video on how to set up that I have seen I think you’re in the top 10 but again thanks 🇺🇸
Really like this - clear delivery, informative and engaging manner..thanks!
Danke für diese total einfachen, verständlichen Info`s, das Beste was ich bisher gefunden habe !!! Habe einiges gelernt!
Thanks for the simple, but completely understandable explanations! It is the best thing I have found in this regard!
Thank you just what I needed with my new first telescope. Gosh thats a big scope you have there! Goto have its own zipcode :)
I'm new to my telescope. I learned much from you. I sure like the way you explained it.
I'm happy to help.
Very helpful; thanks. I like that the fact that I can use this method during the day. It makes things much easier.
Thanks shared to an astronomy group on FB and my FB pages. Clear Skies!
This hommie knows how to look at it closely! Gracias bro
I am in the education business. Your video could be used in a classroom because it is extremely well done.
Thanks for sharing.
My Number One tip would be to extend the legs of the Tripod to full length, and it should not be much of an issue to align the finderscope with your 2 lenses in the Celestron 114 LCM atleast.
Thanks for the tip.
What a superlative teacher!
Thank you! That's wonderful information to find for a first time owner.👍👍
I spent half my evening using it with the. Over on. I'm a fool, thanks for mentioning it at 2:20
Thank you for the suggestions .
It helped to adjust the funderscope and eyepiece
Glad it helped!
Such a great guy…… like who tf would dislike this video
Thank you for that.
Thanks for your videos, very well done. Im a beginner to this science. Just got a Gskyer and im having issues with the Finderscope not being clear to object very blurry and I thought it was adjustable.
Great video, great explainer. And Sir, no need to apologize at least to me at 2m:25s. I've done just that more times than I can shake an azimuth at. Thank you for the clear and experienced instruction. -DG
Such a great video I love the patience you keep while teaching noobs
Awesome video man. Helped me a ton. I had no idea before how to align my finderscope that also had 3 knobs.
Glad it helped!
This video was so useful. Straight forward and had me aligned in minutes. Thank you for sharing!
Best description yet. Thank you so much. I finally figured it out.
Man, this may be ultra simple - but I lost 2 hours few nights ago being properly p'd off because I couldn't find my target through the telescope. So - thank you !!!
That is one BAD ASS DOBSONIAN you have there! Been eyeballing those for awhile now. Very informative video. You probably have your ISO and f/stop settings figured out by now for the outdoor exposure levels on your video beings this is 5 years later...
Thank you. I was having big trouble with this. I couldn't work out how to adjust a 3 screw set-up. I assumed that the odd screw was wrong, to do with buying a cheap scope. When I did manage to align them, I'd tighten them down, and of course - not aligned anymore!
Then I watched this (a) only 2 adjustable screws. Ahh. (b) the set screw is spring-loaded. Ahh, I did not realise that. (c) Just adjust until right. Ahh, you DO NOT tighten it down!!!
Problem solved. Thanks
Happy to help. Clear skies!
Well made video, for even beginners like me. Learning so much. Thanks for sharing!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Yes your video helped greatly, it is simple, loud and clear. Thank you very much sir.
all these set up videos, yours does the job. The others dont even attempt to do it. NICE!
Thank you. Im just learning. Looked at the moon last night. Found it in the finder scope but when I finally look through the telescope it moved. Thank you for explaining how to adjust the finder scope..
Thank you so much. I had no problems following your instructions. You are good👌👌
This was a great video! I love the non technical wording! Thanks! I hope to see more!
Thanks for the info. It was a big help.
Thankyou, helped me understand this more. New to telescopes, but not new to photography. Subscribed.
Great video. I am now going to your website to see what other pearls of wisdom I can get.
Your telescope looks awesome, yo. Thanks for the video
Thank you. I tried to do this first time. Complete newbie. At night at something way too close