From: Rik Hill 
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Reply-To: Rik Hill 



Recently I had to get a finder for a telescope I was building. Astounded by
some of the prices for simple 50-80mm finders  I found several sources of
adequate optics for the job. I thought these might be of interest to anyone
else faced with the same problem. This is all new stuff, not used.

a Celestron 60mm refractor for $40:
http://www.heartlandamerica.com/cgi-bin/MsmGo.exe?grab_id=64550200&EXTRA_ARG=SC
%3D&CFGNAME=MssFind%2Ecfg&host_id=1&page_id=168&query=telescope&hiword=TELESCOP
E+TELESCOPING+TELESCOPES+TELESCOPIC+
This company, Heartland America, was selling an alt-az 4.25" reflector
for $50 a week ago. Their sales come and go and bear watching.

10x50 binoculars for $20. While not great binoculars, they will give you 2
finders for less than one would cost from the telescope companies.
http://www.kmart.com/product/index.jsp?productId=1327440&cp=945368.702345&paren
tPage=family

-Rik

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