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Old 03-07-2016, 12:24 PM
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Lee "Wormsy" Borsboom

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Thanks for taking the time Ray, really appreciate it! I've got some old measurements here for my focuser which tells me that it's about 2.7u per step and I think it needed to be about 7.5k steps further out, so that should mean I need about 20mm. I'll double check all of that before I order anything.

Edit: You corrected your post just as I was posting mine. So, based on those numbers, I should expect a change in focal plane ~4x the focal length of the doublet lens taken from a plossl. So if I need 20mm, and a plossl contains 2 doublets that are individually about twice their advertised length, I would need to divide the distance needed by about 8 and that should tell me (roughly) what eyepiece focal lengths I should look at... which gives me 2.5mm for 20mm, correct?

And by moving the lens element further away from the OAG prism, I would push the new focal plane out further, is that correct? I can only get it "so close" to the prism, maybe 20mm or so.
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