Can't line it up — there's no finder scope

Lining up on Venus is the hardest part of the night by a distance. There is no finder scope on this telescope at all, so aiming means eyeballing along the tube and then hunting blind across a 46' x 31' field for a target that is only a few dozen pixels across.

The new swivel makes the moving easy. It does nothing for knowing where to point.

Workarounds for tonight: sight along the tube like a rifle barrel, stick tape at each end of the tube as improvised iron sights, and crank the exposure way up while hunting so Venus shows as an obvious smear instead of a dot you only see once you are already on it. Calibrate the tape sight against the Moon first, since the Moon is impossible to miss.

What this actually needs: a red dot finder. A small reflex sight, ~$20-40. Not a Telrad — that is a big heavy slab meant for large tubes and would unbalance a 76 mm scope on the new swivel. A Rigel QuikFinder or a generic compact red dot is the right scale. Need to check whether the tube has a finder shoe; if not, that is a bracket to make.

Worth noting for the record: two sessions of blaming focus and seeing, and tonight the thing costing me the most time was simply not being able to point the telescope.