Thanks to those to responded to my recent questions about this project. With your help I was able to get my newest scope operational and out for a couple of sessions and am really enjoying it.
I have come to call it Frankenscope because for a refractor, it came together from so many different distant sources with components that were made over so many years.
The tube is an old Edmund Scientific tube. The objective is a new Antares. The cell is a Synta. The finder is a GS. The mount is a Tal, and the tripod is an old Birns and Sawyer Motion Picture Camera Tripod.
I thought it interesting the number of countries involved in the manufacture and distribution of the components too. USA, China, Russia, Japan, and Canada.
I have come to call it Frankenscope because for a refractor, it came together from so many different distant sources with components that were made over so many years.
The tube is an old Edmund Scientific tube. The objective is a new Antares. The cell is a Synta. The finder is a GS. The mount is a Tal, and the tripod is an old Birns and Sawyer Motion Picture Camera Tripod.
I thought it interesting the number of countries involved in the manufacture and distribution of the components too. USA, China, Russia, Japan, and Canada.
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Rod Nabholz
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