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Posts Made By: Eric Daugherty

August 1, 2004 04:26 AM Forum: Equipment Talk

Reccomendation on Binoculars

Posted By Eric Daugherty
Hello,

I say buy a pair of 7x50's or 10x50's from Orion and foget it. I have a pair of UltraView 10x50's that I really like. They serve me well as all around binoculars. I also have a pair of 15x63 Mini Giants that are wonderful for scanning around. But those aren't as good at multitasking as the 10x50's and are now over $200.

Eric

August 12, 2004 03:50 AM Forum: Telescope Making

Alien technology in ATM project.....

Posted By Eric Daugherty
David,

Every time I see a new pic of your carbon fiber masterpice I get more impressed.

One more quick question. Did you make that mirror cell? Did you use a sling, adhesives or rigid edge support? I'm just kicking around a big dob of my own and I'm sorting out a lot of detail right now. I'd really like to use a 1.5" or 1.625" mirror to save a few lbs.

Eric

August 16, 2004 04:55 AM Forum: Telescope Making

Scope Upgrade - 1 Yard Line

Posted By Eric Daugherty
Cool looking scope. I'm very impressed.

Mark Harry is refiguring your mirror? Is he reasonable on his prices? I have an old Coulter 10" f/5.53 that I wouldn't mind having tweaked. It needs recopated in the worst possible way so I've been thinking of having it refigured as well. Of course if I did that I'd also have to redo the scope. Ain't rationalization the best? grin

Eric

December 28, 2004 05:46 AM Forum: Telescope Making

12.5 f5.9 - Slowly but surely

Posted By Eric Daugherty
Hi Ed,

Looks wonderful so far! Those are some cool looking side bearings. Good luck with the rest of it and please keep us up to date.

Eric

April 24, 2005 03:18 AM Forum: Telescope Making

Primary Mirror Cell

Posted By Eric Daugherty
MC Telescopes also sells a nice looking cell.
http://www.mctelescopes.com

Michael Zammit will also sell you one of his cells. http://www.starstructuretelescopes.com

Eric


August 3, 2005 02:23 AM Forum: Equipment Talk

Finder Scope Blues

Posted By Eric Daugherty
I would recomend getting a 50mm finder. You see more stars and deep sky objects in them then in a 30mm. As a bonus I 50 mm finders, under my skies at least, show the same stars as Sky Atlas 2000 so I'm all set.

I use a straight through finder on my 10" dob. I sight over the tube to get in the area then look through the finder to get it where I need to go.

If you must have a RA finder do get a unit power finder to go with it. There's a load of them on the market right now and I recomend one of the real simple red dot models like Stellarvue or Antares sells. They seem to have the biggest window to look through. Plus, they weight about a 1/3 or 1/4 of what a Telrad weighs.

Hope this helps.

Eric

November 14, 2005 06:25 PM Forum: Telescope Making

Side bearing dimension

Posted By Eric Daugherty
If you read the section in the Kriege/Berry book about building a small tube dob, they reccomend having bearings 1.8x the tube diameter. So lets say your tube it 12" in diameter. So then 12*1.8=21.6. So I would say 21.5" bearings would work according to the book.
I'm not sure however if this only applies to their design.


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