Orion 8x50 Right Angle Finder Scope
Orion 8x50 Right Angle Finder Scope
Quickly guide your telescope to stellar sights, with the Orion 8x50 Right Angle Finder Scope! With 50 mm of aperture and a right-angle design, the sky is bright and keeping it in view as you track your telescope across the sky is comfortable. 8x magnification gives you a good balance of context and precision, for a great addition to your visual telescope setup!
To make finding objects easier, the Orion 8x50 Right Angle Finder Scope brings you a bright and lower magnification view. The 8x zoom still provides a good amount of visual context to aid in orienting yourself in the sky and guiding targets into view, with a 5.6° view. A 50 mm, multi-coated objective lens gives you a bright view with good contrast, making it easier to see stellar landmarks and find objects. With a bit more reach and a crosshair eyepiece, you will be able to land the center of your main telescope's view right on target. The erecting diagonal makes moving straight-forward and natural feeling by giving you a right-side-up view through the eyepiece. The included bracket has a Synta-style foot, making this a simple installation for most telescopes on the market today, with matching finder shoe included to help outfit a scope without a free shoe. The bottom of the bracket features a tab to help stop the finder from falling forward and out of the shoe when tension is released. It additionally has alignment screws to properly align this finder scope with your main optics.
Orion 8x50 Right Angle Finder Scope At a Glance
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50 mm, 8x Magnification Optics
This finder brings you
closer than basic red-dot/ reflex finders, while still providing a good
amount of context to allow you to orient yourself and guide your main scope
to the object of choice. 50 mm of aperture has been paired with multi-coated
optics for a good amount of light gathering power and contrast, helping
landmark stars stand out. 8x magnification brings you in close enough that
ensuring your object is in view of your main optics is easy.
Right-Angle Correct-Image Design & Crosshair Eyepiece
Enhancing precision and making guiding your telescope to target more
effortless are this finder's right-angle prism and crosshair eyepiece. The
right-angle erect prism design places the eyepiece in more comfortable
position for many telescope setups, and makes movement feel more intuitive
& natural by the direction you want to travel correspond with the
direction you move the scope. The crosshair eyepiece takes the guesswork out
of centering, allowing you to more accurately align the finder an main
telescope in the first place, and give you a clear reference point for
centering stellar objects.
Finder Bracket and Shoe Included
This 8x50 finder
scope comes with a bracket and finder shoe to help outfit your telescope out
of the box. The bracket features an O-ring front support that works in
conjunction with the two plastic thumbscrew adjustments to pivot the scope
into alignment with your main optic. It features a Synta-style foot,
matching the standard most telescopes on the market use. The back of the
foot features a safety stop which helps stop the scope from falling forward
and out of the shoe if tension is not fully set. A finder shoe is included
to outfit a scope in need of a mount point for this scope, or to replace an
existing shoe to better accommodate the safety stop. Telescope mounting
screws for the shoe are not included.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the purpose of a finder scope?
With the high
magnification provided by a telescope, your zoomed in view of the sky can make
it difficult to make out just where you are and where you need to go on the
way from target to target, even after roughly pointing the scope to the right
area. A finder provides a lower, sometime zero, magnification view with a
reference point to give you more context and help you place objects in the
main field of view.
Do I have to align the reference point (dot, crosshair)?
Yes, by default the center indicator of your finder will very likely
not be lined up with the view through your main telescope. Alignment
generally is pretty simple, consisting of pointing your telescope at a distant
landmark during the day (being certain to avoid areas where the Sun or its
reflection may be), then using the alignment controls on your finder to place
the reference point over the object in the center of your telescope's field of
view.
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