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Hi Chris,

Sorry, I have not checked back into this thread for a while and didn't see the post to say I forgot the photos.

Here's a couple of photo's of Glenn and his folded Nikon 5" f12 ED folded reflector. The scope only contained one high precision D&G optical 4 inch flat and so the camera looked in the opposite direction to the objective. The box was a little less than half the 60 inch focal length thanks to the camera and the objective sitting outside the box. The objective was removed and secured in a padded holder inside the box for transport.

In the second photo, Michael Gill is helping Glenn align the 400mm telephoto lens & camera on top of the box, with the optics in the box. This served as a finder and a wide field camera.

We positioned ourselves 160km from the end of the eclipse path so the sun was only 2 degrees above the horizon and the box horizontal. Totality lasted 18s and so he didn't worry about tracking. For longer overhead eclipses, he had another 6" high precision flat built into a heliostat that would keep the image of the sun in field of the refractor for the entire duration of the eclipse. In those cases, he did not have the wide field camera & lens mounted on the box.

cheers

Joe
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