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Originally Posted by 74tuc
Hi Steve,
I never thought about doing what you suggested so I thought of giving it a try. I rumaged around and found a 2" WO right angle diagonal (a spare kicking around!) and a GS 2" ED Barlow lens (bought only for test purposes) BTW on test with a 6" apochromat it performed exceptionally well.
The ED Barlow assembly unscrews into 3 pieces and the lens cell screws into the diagonal - very neat - but requires the silver tube to be shortened and re-threaded (in work) to suite the 'scope. I now have a "x(you guess) Diagonal" beats all that length before the eyepiece.
Jerry.  |
Hey thats neat, I will give that a try too!
Wish I just had a diagonal "kicking" around - I need a job to get some fine glass.
And yeah high mag isn't everything, but I have a f/5 scope, and to get to 150x or so (my max practical is 200x) I need a 2.8-3x barlow with my existing eye piece collection. Currently I only have a few below 100, then from 100 its a jump to 200 with nothing in between.
Cheers,
Steve