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Originally Posted by mental4astro
Here is a real flight of fancy:
Rather than using a solid tube and if your metal working skills are upto it, make a truss tube with a dovetail mounting plate in the middle.
Doomsayer's beautiful scope which is described in his ATM thread shows what I mean, but where his truss ends at the position of the cassegrain primary, duplicate the anterior truss assembly to the back so the end product resembles a romboid shade with both pointy ends cut of.
The mounting plate would then sit below the central brace.
Very old school arrangement but visually striking.
Just a flight of fancy,  .
Mental. |
Looks good, but probably beyond my skills. However, the other F o F I was considering was a round wooden tube. There
is a good thread on Cloudy Nights discussing this. I've thumbnailed a pic--looks magnificent.