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Vlr?
As the cloud ridden boredom sets in......this is the pointy end of my experimental open long refractor. 74mm f3000 glued achromat, 3 hours with the dremel modifying the objective holder (70mmf500SW OTA), old finder with the lenses removed for a "hood sight". The Skywatcher wedge will hopefully aid in alignment. The "body" will be a simple wooden beam (Guitar tuners & wire for pretensioning) on an AltAz pipe mount, and the focus assembly will be a macro photography mount for coarse focus and a 2" helical for fine mounted on that. Plan on using maybe a 28mm EP. I fully realise the image may not be up to everyone's standards, but this is an experiment (ongoing) after all. I start on the focuser end next week...... And probably not what Skywatcher envisaged.
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