Re: ATM Binocular Telescope

[Jeff Crilly <jeff@communities.com>]

The bino chair, "Voyager", was in S&T July 1996.  (I have a photcopy
of the article at home.)  This is a completely enclosed  observing
seat with two 8" newts on top.  The altitude and azimuth of the 
chair is motorized.  I believe there is also a motor drive on the scope
"height" such that it moves up and down to accomadate different
height viewers. It uses a standard pair of binoculars for a finder scope.
It looks cool. 

At 11:46 PM 6/1/97 -0500, John Graves wrote:
>My next project is going to be a 8 inch binocular telescope... I'm thinking
>f5.5 or so. Anyone have any suggestions about this focal ratio... should it
>be slower or faster? Any tips on grinding two mirrors to the same focal
>length and how much tolerance do I have regarding the f.l. of the two
>mirrors.? Last question, does anyone happen to remember which issue of S&T
>had the article where the ATM made a binocular telescope and had a really
>well designed observing chair for it?
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>John A. Graves -- Amateur Telescope Maker, Moderator - Fidonet ATM Echo
>john.graves@nashville.com *or* starwanderer@geocities.com
>Visit my WWW page or submit articles to the Electronic ATM Journal at:
>http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/7679
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