Rigel Quickfinder

• Item : Rigel Quickfinder
  
• Price: ~$40
• Merchant information:  Purchased from Starizona (I think).  www.starizona.com/
• History - I have used an Orion red dot pointer (one of the old ones), and a Telrad.  The Orion was hideous, and I should have replaced it after the first night.  It was VERY dark as you looked through it, thus hiding any stars that you tried to line up on.  The Telrad is bulky, ugly and works fantastically well.  I was looking for a very light, small footprint, less bulky version of a telrad.
• General observations – A Rigel Quickfinder fit the bill very well.  It is a two ring "bulls eye" type finder, with NO magnification.  Rings are at one degree and two degrees.  About 4.5" tall by 1.5" square.  It is compact, very usable, and hardly dims stars at all.  Definitely a keeper.  A nice touch is that it comes with two bases.
• Weight: 2 oz with base.
  
• Brightness – Brightness is adjustable.  The rate at which it blinks is also adjustable, from every few seconds to constant on.
• Accuracy – Adjustable, using three screws.  As I put it on and off of the scope, it seems to "loose adjustment", and I often have to tweak it back in.
• Advantages – Good price.  Small size.  Small base.  Light weight.  Easy to use.   Batteries last a long time.
  
• Disadvantages – If your eye isn't EXACTLY in the correct spot, you see nothing.  Placing your eye very close to the finder to get the "bulls eye" helps.