From: George Anderson 
To: "Dwight K. Elvey" , atm

Reply-To: George Anderson 


I've always figured that the best way to do a binoscope would be to mount
the thing on a frame with a big old easy chair. Slide into the chair and
then bring the back up till your eyes meet the eye pieces. Have the rocker
bearings mounted on the sides of the easy chair and then rotate the whole
chair on an oversized lazy susan. Mel's scope software and hardware for
controlling the thing from a hand held box. And then add a linear actuator
for adjusting the back rest of the chair. Not overly portable and probably
limited to 8" or less for ground clearance, but to quote Monty Python
"Luxury!".

George Anderson
Montreal Canada

Clear skies and good health

"Dwight K. Elvey" wrote:
>
> >From: "Mel Bartels" 
> >
> >>>> Am I nuts, or naive, or both? Comments, advice and
recommendations
> >welcome.
> >
> >I think a 16 inch binoc would be wonderful.  If I were grinding/building the
> >scope, I'd worry as much about the mechanics and alignment as the actual
> >grinding.
> >
> >Mel Bartels
> >
>
> Hi
>  Of course your nuts but I agree with Mel. Keeping
> two telescopes pointed to within a few hundredths
> of a degree is an interesting problem.
>  One of the biggest trouble I have at our viewing
> nights is to convince those that "Know what they
> are doing" not to grab the ends of the OTA's and
> use only the handle provided. Systems like Bruce
> Sayre's may be able to handle this but ours is
> gravity located and not locked like his.
> Dwight

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