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Frankenscope 4" f15

Started by rnabholz, 05/25/2005 09:01PM
Posted 05/25/2005 09:01PM Opening Post
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.

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Rod Nabholz
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Posted 05/26/2005 04:44PM #1
Rod,
If only Frankenstein had turned out looking as nice as that scope a lot of problems might have been avoided. Nice job and something to be proud of.
Dan

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