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Old 22-April-2008, 07:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Meeko View Post
I personally think it is bad since it floods the plastic/glass with the dot with so much light that all I see is a blob of red when I turn it on and not really the sky with a red dot superimposed. Then again, I am not sure how far from the red dot finder my eye/face needs to be. Maybe I don't know how to use it.
One tip is to keep both eyes open when looking through the red dot finder. One eye looks through the finder and the other eye views the sky directly.

I also find it helpful to pulse the red dot off and on. That is how I align my platform to Polaris, for example.

I would check to see if there is a knob that dims the dot, and if so dim it so that you can just barely see it.
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