Notes from the field. My rants raves and frothing at the mouth about this maddening and frustrating buy lovely hobby

Thank you Eric for finding this! The one flaw in the Explore Scientific scopes can now be fixed!!

Originally Posted by perigny270

My Antares finderscope arrived yesterday. It works fantastic. No more contortions and the focusser is back to where it belongs.
I put it in the ES finderscope rings - it can slip around a bit (rotate) because one of the screws on each of the ES rings is spring loaded. However it usually stays put, and even when it moves it does not lose its alignment (I tried it).
The ES viewfinder is now on the right side of the 8SE on the Antares mount. The mounting screws line up perfectly whereas the ES ones did not (and there are 4 of them). A nice complement to the Telrad, esp for twilight viewing.
And the Antares is made in Canada !!!

I recommend it as a cure for crooked-neck syndrome and left-eye aiming.

Eric