Home > Consumer Reviews > Telrad Finder Sight

Very , very nice .
This should be your first accessory for your new scope .
Take the finder scope that came with your scope and chunk in the woods .
If you can see your target look through the bullseye in the Telrad and it is in your eyepiece .It's that easy .

The Telrad finder helps me find objects in the sky in a big hurry. Instead of looking at an upside image of a small part of the sky with the finder scope, the Telrad gives you a bigger picture of the sky that you can quickly train your scope on with the red circles displayed on the glass screen. I mount the Telrad on my 4.5" Reflector with an equitorial mount. Normally it is a pain to find stuff in the sky looking thru the spotting scope and having to deal with the strange axis created by the equitorial mount. With the Telrad, it is kind of like training in on objects with an Etch-a-sketch.

I also made some circles on transparency sheets to use with my sky charts making the device even more valuable for finding fainter objects in the sky.

Overall, I am very satisfied with the product and it has tremendously increase my productivity while star gazing.

I have read and heard about Telerad Red Dot finders for years but never thought them worth the bother or the expense.

Shows how little I know.

I have two Meade GOTO scopes and one Celestron and have been using the supplied finderscopes with no real complaint but in my old age I guess have found it more difficult to get and keep the finder scope and the telescope in harmony and as a result have had some frustration.

Do I decided to try this unit out and ordered one for my Meade 7" Mak.

It works PERFECTLY"

It is easy to adjust as you go along and as a result, my initial alignment was done and over in three minutes and everything was spot on and dead center in the scope, making for a most enjoyable viewing session despite a moon that was so bright you could have played a night baseball game beneath it.

My other scopes will soon be equipped with an identical finder


Gary Hutchinson

This is the best investment I've made for my dobsonian scope. Prior to this, it was a royal pain to find objects in the sky. Now all I have to is find the object in the telrad and it's in the middle of my eyepiece. Installation was a breeze and sighting in the telrad via the three adjustable screws was quick and painless. I can't give this device enough praise.

The Telrad reflex sight is by far the easiest finder I have ever used. I recently installed the sight on my casagrain scope, even though it is a little large for a 6 inch scope it is far better than the red dot finder it replaced. With the variable intensity, you can adjust the brightness of the sight to more easily find fainter objects, such as messier objects, that would be more difficult with a singal intensity red dot finder, also when trying to locate craters on the moon turn the intensity up to see the reticle against the brighter moon. With a reticle that looks like a bulls eye with 3 rings of 1/2, 2, and 4 degrees resectivly it's easier to fine tune the aiming of your scope. Again,I would like to say this is the easiest finder I have ever used.