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Old 10-06-2013, 10:42 AM
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Can anyone recommend a flip mirror

I've been thinking that I'd like to set my 110mm refractor up so its simply to convert between visual and imaging by adding a flip mirror into the system.

I envisage my set up would be OTA -> moonlite focuser

primary light path would be a large enough flip mirror - guess I need a 2" light path (not the 1.25" models like the Orion one Bintel sell) - into a COMA corrector -> Canon DSLR

secondary light path would be a tube extender of roughly the same length as the COMA corrector -> eye piece with a helical focuser on the flip mirror to make the both Camera and eye piece's focus points parafocal.

The only models I common see that have helical focuses on one light path seem to have 1.25" eye piece connectors to the main OTA e.g.

http://www.bintel.com.au/Astrophotog...oductview.aspx

I wonder that this would chop a DSLR's imaging chip.

Can anyone offer advise of what I am trying to achieve please?

Thanks, Matt
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