map holder is completed !!!

bytor666 · #1 08-03-2005, 07:55 PM

Wow....here's yet another one of my little inventions !!!!...It's a map holder that rotates a full 360 degrees, so that as the sky rotates I can just rotate the map to match the sky as I am looking at it through my RACI finder. Then when I zero in to starhop some more , I just rotate the map again to match the view in my eyepiece.!!!...I think i hear the word COPYRIGHT ...(lol)....I made one of these when I had my ORION 12.5" DEEP SPACE EXPLORER and I remembered how convenient it was to use , so I've made another one !!!....clear skies to all !!!
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Mark
12" GSO SCOPE

ballaratdragons (Ken) · #2 08-03-2005, 08:13 PM

Excellent Idea Mark. It's amazing the stuff us amateurs keep inventing!

Forget about Speaker Magnets for counterweights, you've got enough doo-dads on there to need the whole stereo system.

ving (David) · #3 08-03-2005, 09:13 PM

well done... but i want your finder.

Starkler (Geoff) · #4 08-03-2005, 09:29 PM

Is it actually bolted to the telrad? What happens if you bump it?

RAJAH235 · #5 08-03-2005, 10:54 PM

But I wouldn't like to try putting the Herald-Bobroff on it!

L.
I have a rotating H-B holder on my modified Ironing board, but that looks very handy indeed.

Vermin (Tom) · #6 09-03-2005, 01:29 AM

I was thinking the same thing about the Deluxe version of Sky Atlas 2000. It's huge. I'm going to have to get the field version.

bytor666 · #7 09-03-2005, 07:16 AM

well starkler...even if i were to bump it NOTHING would happen because the thing is bolted on so tight that it wont even budge !!!...(lol)....also, I'm putting a light above the mapholder to illuminate the maps...plus the darn thing is so out of the way I wouldnt be bumping into it....I'm always aware of NOT having to BUMP into stuff on the scope because i know for a fact that things can get out of alignment when doing so. WOW Ken !!!...now if I can just cut a few holes in the middle of the tube I could install a few speakers and a sub-woofer. Then I'll have me a boombox scope with it's very own VIBRATION !!!..just think of those multiple blurry views of Saturn ...HAHAHAHAHAHA
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Mark
12" GSO SCOPE
DOO-DADS