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Having given denis 008 a bucket load of loot for a pair of his Zeiss binos which have 30mm of clear appature I have been reluctant to use a corrector of only 24.5mm diameter with the resulting loss of light.
I am able to come to focus without a corrector with the following set up.
TSA120 - Tak 3inch extension tube - TV X2 powermate - Baader T2 prism - Zeiss binos - 2 Baader 8/24 Mk IV zoom eyepieces. This setup means that I do not have 1.5kg of binos and eyepieces balanced on top of a powermate which itself is perched on a diagonal, the drawback is that with the powermate being so far removed from the eyepieces the magnification is huge, I estimate X4 although I admit that I don't know how to work it out mathematically.
I am thinking/hoping that the Tak 1.5 extender could replace the powermate and then give me a more standard magnification.
eg, 900x1.5 devided by 8 = 169 whereas at present I estimate that the 8mm eyepiece is giving me something of the order of 450! while the minimum mag is around 150. I know the Tak is good, but that good?
Sorry about the upside down photo, cannot seem to correct it on my iPad.
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