Guide Scope

I have an 8 inch orion reflector, first time owner, having trouble with initial line up and considering an upgrade in hardware. Wondering if the televue star beam at ~$250 is really worth that much more over the televue qwikpoint for $30, or even the orion EZ finder for $35.

Comments from users would be great!!

Get yourself a Telrad for less than 40.00 and never have to look back!

Walt

Ditto:Telrad (and the Telrad finder-chart books!), but also recommend mounting a 8X50 ST finder as well as it will show stars down to magnitudes as plotted on the Tirion atlas and be a real help in zero-ing in on dim fuzzies not shown on the Telrad charts.

Rigel Quick-Finder is a nice item as well...

I did some research on the telrad and was impressed. Thanks for the advice. I do have a 9 X 50 so I will set up with both as suggested.