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Thanks Brent, that's what's in my manual too.

I spoke to Jim at Questar this morning and he said that as much as anything, it's a matter of getting used to it and that dimmer objects were harder to pick up visually because the finder doesn't use an light gathering optics unlike what I'm used to when I use my refractors.

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Yup, the finder objective lens is small and stars beyond 2nd or 3rd magnitude look pretty faint.
Light pollution doesn't help.
At first I had quite a bit of trouble adjusting to it's limited light grasp, but the more I used the finder and noticed how sharp it was, the better I was able to train my eye to pick out what I wanted to see.

Keep trying and good luck!