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Old 12-06-2011, 07:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Logieberra View Post
Grant, if you can convince Ian to help us... I have 2 x 50mm used binoculaur objectives sitting at home. They are in a threaded / standard binocular housing (kind of of like a refractor primary cell with a small lens hood)... I was not sure how to make the focuser end so I held off on the project
Logan,
I have a 40mm Bintel Plossl that can be used for the job (and then added onto the 80mm refractor). A crosshaired 40mm on an 80mm f/5 should produce a 10x80 finderscope. The eyepiece could also help with doing the two star goto aligment procedure. Either way, we have a project ahead!!
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