Re: [ATM] Mike Lockwood's Planetary

["Mel Bartels" <mbartels@bbastrodesigns.com>]

> thoughts came to me when I read the S&T article. 1) Many years ago,
> Richard Berry in Deep Sky Mag said that no matter how well baffled a
> scope, a full-length shroud might still give you that critical extra few
> tenths of a magnification in seeing. If you can possibly just glimpse
> the central star in the Ring with this scope as is, then that would make
> this scope a perfect test bed for the shroud/tenths of a mag theory.
> (Dobson's fav shroud was the weightless mylar space blanket.)


For goodness' sake, don't stop there!  Build an observatory covered with
black flock paper on the inside that has but a narrow circular opening for a
slit.  And don't forget to baffle the slit!

Mel Bartels


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