To me the biggest advantage to building your own tube assembly is that you can match the prime focus point to the eyepieces or other equipment you plan on using. Erik
I've actually been going down a similar road lately. I've been working on adapting my hi-def camcorder to the telescope. It has a non-removable lens, so eyepiece projection is my best bet. I finally found an adapter ring that allows me to directly couple the camera to my eyepiece-projection housing with T-threads. Preliminary daytime results have been good with the 80mm refractor, but I'm still lacking magnification without a lot of vignetting. I'm goint to try it with the C6 next. It has a much longer focal length.
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> wrote:
There are also off-the-shelf solutions for the mass-produced telescopes and cameras, if one does a bit of sleuthing or is lucky enough to find a salesperson who understands what they want to do and can recommend the proper hardware.
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