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Does anyone have any experience with using green lasers as replacement finderscopes? And can recommend a good mount? I have inherited a nice 1988 celestron powerstar 8" Schmidt-Cassegrain with motorized equatorial wedge setup and moto-focus from my father, which I've since had to take apart and unfreeze the corkscrew gear to operate, but now works great. I also have a 50mW green laser that's powered by two AAAs, ideally I'd like to mount it as a secondary finderscope complete with calibration knobs / external constant power source. I really just use it to check out planets and the usual amateur suspects, but I'm really looking to get more involved since getting the motorized wedge working along with learning how incorrectly the tripod was setup and how to polar align and such. tl;dr: I've seen different mounts for green lasers as finderscopes for sale around the net, which do you recommend?
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HOLYFLAMINGCRAP posted:I recently read Cosmos by Carl Sagan and have become space obsessed and have been thinking about getting a telescope. The problem is I live in NYC where light pollution is insane and I was wondering if anyone on here lives in NYC and whats your experience with telescopes here. Is it pointless, or can you see alright in the middle of central park maybe? From living in Tokyo for a year, I'm afraid the poster above is correct.... On another note Cosmos (the series) is on Hulu, with limited commercials, 
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