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Old 18-07-2009, 10:41 PM
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Making up Diagonal for Galileoscope
Some pictures of what I did to have a working diagonal on my Galileoscope. It had to come, however, with a "built-in" 2x barlow.

I used a simple 1.25" mirror diagonal and the lens from a 1.25" 2x barlow.
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