Re: [ATM] New minimalist single-pole 18" ultralight

[Ross Sackett <rsackett00@yahoo.com>]

--- Mike Lockwood <melockwo@uiuc.edu> wrote:
> I'm glad someone built a mount like this (the
> "dob-fork" mount).  I 
> have sketches of a very similar mount, which I had
> intended for 
> another telescope or maybe my travel scope, but I
> never built it.

Mike:
You might be intersted in seeing my 8" travelscope
from last year's RTMC:
http://www.rtmcastronomyexpo.org/archives/photos/2006/2006-05-28%20RTMC%20022.jpg
(you'll probably need to stitch that back together
into one address)

> The "two Jupiter" flexure is interesting.  I recall
> similar flexure on 
> a friend's four-pole Teleport.  Do you know where
> the bulk of the 
> flexure is occurring?  What is the pole made of? 

About half the flexure is from the 2" diameter
aluminum tube, and most of the rest is in twisting and
wall-squashing of the mirror box.  i would worry about
tracking it down, except 2 Jupiters isn't much in a
visual scope.

Ross
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