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To: MarineBrat

Clever. Btw, why did you not use the Newtonian for the video? Was it lack of a solar filter?


27 posted on 04/26/2020 10:31:58 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2

I don’t have a solar filter for the big scope. I bungeed a towel over the main aperture, And did some surgery on a large cardboard box so that it would fit snug up against the tube. I put a hole through the end of the box where the finder scope poked through and projected onto a white sheet of paper on the back of the box. The movie camera went inside of the box filming the projection on the white sheet of paper. I have always been a bubble gum and guy wire kind of astronomer. :-)


33 posted on 04/27/2020 3:06:07 PM PDT by MarineBrat (Better dead than red!)
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