Re: [ATM] 12 inch/f5,4 Travel- Dobson

[Mike Lockwood <melockwo@uiuc.edu>]

Stathis,

Stathis Kafalis wrote:
> As Ulli Vedder is not on this list, may I introduce you to his just finished
> 12-inch that weights just 10 kg.
> http://www.binodob.de/12_eng.html

Great scope!  Very well planned an executed.

I wonder how large the altitude bearings are?  Also, does each of the 
poles come apart into sections, or is each one piece?  That's my main 
concern with a travel scope - getting the poles into manageable pieces.

> The more I look at this scope, the more I like it.
> Oh, this reminds me of my finished 14-inch mirror of 21 mm thickness that
> still has no housing.

And it reminds me of my finished 13"x7/8" Pyrex mirror that needs a 
home.  It too will get a 6-pt mirror cell, and the scope may end up as 
a "travel scope", but it will definitely be my "grab and go" 
lightweight telescope for when I don't feel like lugging out something 
heavier.

I am finishing (wood finishing) a 10" F/5.5 and I will have a web page 
up describing it in the coming weeks.  Its mirror and the 13" are on 
their way to the coater now.

	Mike Lockwood


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