Re: [APML] RC Field Flattener

[Gil Shillcutt <astrocycle@yahoo.com>]

Matt,

Thanks for responding.  I hadn't thought about Mr. Ceravolo.  I'll give him a shout. 

I've had some expressed interest in providing quotes for this work already from the scope's manufacturer, but that's not panning out.  I guess either they're too busy, or perhaps I'm just kicking the tires. 

Does anyone know if Dave Rowe or Robert Bickel might be interested in helping?

-- Gil

  Matt BenDaniel <matt@starmatt.com> wrote:

Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 21:55:07 -0500
To: astro-photo@seds.org
From: Matt BenDaniel
Subject: Re: [APML] RC Field Flattener
Reply-to: astro-photo@seds.org

Gil,

Peter Ceravolo ceravolo@cyanogen.com does very high quality work and costs a pretty penny.

Matt

At 06:37 PM 11/5/2001 -0800, Gil Shillcutt wrote:

>I've recently acquired a RC scope (optics by Paul Jones), and thought I might try my hand at medium format. The scope shows some curvature of field at the corners of a 35mm frame, so will definitely need a field flattener to do decent medium format. I've not been able to evaluate the optics for astigmatism, though that may need to be corrected as well.
>
>Does anyone know of an optical designer/fabricator that I might be able to work with to design an appropriate corrector?
>
>I'll be getting the ! scope to first light over the next couple of weeks -- it was formerly George Greany's. I've been wasting the last month of clear skies (a true rarity in Atlanta) building an observatory for the scope. BTW, I fully expect it to start raining next week.
>
>Thanks,
>
>-- Gil

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