[meteorite-list] telescope

[Pict]

Mmmm. Tripod will go to 8ft with room to spare, so that covers the zenith.
I guess if I lug around some stepladders I have the horizon in my sights
also. I take the point!

Regards,
John


On 11/01/2012 00:52, "Peter Scherff" <peterscherff at rcn.com> wrote:

>Hi John,
>
>I have a similar rig. I find that I can use it to look at objects on the
>horizon. Unfortunately it is a killer when you turn it near the zenith.
>Without a diagonal you will kill your neck.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Peter
>
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>To: Benjamin P. Sun; meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] telescope
>
>Benjamin,
>
>Haven't had a chance to play with this yet but I just managed to find a
>Nikon Lens scope converter. They were discontinued some time ago and are
>rare - been looking for a couple of years for a reasonably priced one. You
>mount it onto a manual focus F mount telephoto and it turns the lens into
>a
>telescope with a magnification 1/10th the focal length in mm.
>
>Now I have a 600mm f4, two 1.4X teleconverters, and a 2X teleconverter. So
>in theory I could stack all the teleconverters on and have a 2400mm f16
>lens. The front objective on this lens is 160mm in diameter so according
>to
>your rule of thumb it should be good for a useful magnification of
>(50/25)x160 = 320, whereas the actual magnification will be 2400/10=240,
>well within this.
>
>I was assuming the lens would be too dark at f16 to see much. Is this
>setup
>comparable to a telescope in the sense that your guidelines for maximum
>useable magnification still apply? I'd be delighted to hear that I do
>have a
>chance of it being useable at this magnification. What do you think? It
>will
>be monstrously unwieldy, but I do have a substantial tripod and gimbal
>head
>so should be possible to keep it reasonably steady.
>
>Regards,
>John
>
>
>On 10/01/2012 04:13, "Benjamin P. Sun" <bpsun2009 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>On a limited budget, a small refractor is best for casual planetary and
>>lunar viewing.
>>
>>Small reflectors are more suited for viewing deep space objects, such
>>as galaxies and nebulas.
>>Avoid reflectors under 100mm in aperture. Their large central
>>obstruction from the secondary mirror blocks out too much light. You'd
>>get a better, brighter, sharper image through a 60mm refractor than
>>through a 80mm reflector.
>>
>>I started out in astronomy decades ago with a quality 60mm tabletop
>>spotting scope with a zoom eyepiece. I could easily see all 4 of
>>Jupiters' moons, the rings of Saturn, the orange disk of Mars, the
>>phases of Venus, 7 stars of Pleiades, and Orion's nebula with it.
>>Ignore all the magnification power hype. A useful magnification
>>guideline is 50-60x per inch of aperture. So 60mm(2.4 inches) will
>>yield a maximum useful magnification of about 140x. More than enough
>>for the casual astronomer. Beyond that magnification and everything
>>begins to look crappy, dark and fuzzy.
>>
>>Remember, even on a low budget, you can still find a good quality
>>scope. Look for a coated(multi-coated if you're lucky) air-spaced
>>achromatic lens and good multi-element .965" or 1.25" sized eyepieces.
>>A finderscope is a non-essential accessory and usually useless junk
>>anyways.
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