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Originally Posted by allan gould
Have to admit thats the stupidest design for a filter wheel to load a large number of filters. Why doesnt someone think outside the box for a new design such as a slightly thicker holder wherein the filters flip out into the light path from a station on the side. Three stations and three filters would be enough and with good machining easier to do than having a great big blob of aluminium hanging off the back of your focusser. Just looks like bad design to me.
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You have a point Allan but I suspect the time and or money wasn't in this project to cover the R&D necessary to come up with such a design?
Gerd Neumanns enginering skills are first class so I am sure it must be adequate if La Silla have ok'd it..?
FLI's CentreLine (named by me incidentally!
) is close to what you are suggesting.
Mike