24-02-2007, 02:14 PM
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Blacktown isn't so black
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Prospect, NSW, 2148
Posts: 1,316
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BSirius
Hi Ron, sounds like you had a great session. How did you make your dew/light shields? Do they cut out much light pollution?
Cheers,
Ben
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Alan Sheehan wrote a top DIY project which I followed to the letter:
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/index.php?id=63,321,0,0,1,0
I added the baffle myself after advice from several forum members. I got the self adhesive black felt from Spotlight and stuck it inside the shields. Yes it has improved my elimination of both dew and extraneous light form street lights etc. Do it, you won't look back
One word of caution, Alan's binoculars were AOE and mine are Andrews, both of these are identical in their physical size dimensions, if you have other larger or smaller sized binoculars, you will need to measure very precisely and match up the PVC pipe if possible, I suspect that there will be some binoculars that simply don't fit a PVC pipe size. In that case you would need to source out some other suitable material.
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