would it be as easy as drilling a hole in the side of the eyepiece with my dremel (infront of the crosshairs as the eye sees it) and just fitting a pulse illuminator?
would it be as easy as drilling a hole in the side of the eyepiece with my dremel (infront of the crosshairs as the eye sees it) and just fitting a pulse illuminator?
anyone else tried this?
Duncan,
Do a search using illuminated crosshairs on IIS shows quite a few
people have tried it.
would it be as easy as drilling a hole in the side of the eyepiece with my dremel (infront of the crosshairs as the eye sees it) and just fitting a pulse illuminator?
anyone else tried this?
put a telrad there easier to use while star hoping
mozzie
I removed mine from my stellervue eyepiece here http://www.stellarvue.com/eyepieces.html
from memory the crosshairs ,red thread or something stuck on a piece of glass sits in a little slot in the adapter ring you can see on the eyepiece there, the illuminater when threaded in shines through the side of the bit of glass not above or below .
I may have the illuminater rolling round someplace if you want it .
While a great piece of equipment, a telrad performs slightly different role to a 10x finder
I modded my RACI finder after reading of Steves' adventures
No, the glass reticle is etched and the scratch illuminates due to diffraction.
A threaded reticle is just threads, no glass.
Each style of eyepiece has the field stop in different positions, some are easier to place a reticle (or graticule) in the correct position for illumination.
