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Old 12-02-2008, 06:08 AM
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Well, after going round and round with myself for more than a month, I decided to give this a go. Tube rings for this set up are pretty expensive just to try, so I made my own just to see if it would be worth buying the actual tube rings. I also cheated on the extra weights for my test.

All in all, I'm pretty happy with how it turned out and will be spending the extra money now to do it right.

The Saturn photo is from the first night out under medium seeing conditions. About 250 frames out of 2,000. Prime focus using a cheap 2x Barlow.

Now, where's that credit card?
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