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To: fissionproducts
Nice binocs Huh. I wished I had a pair of those. Unfortunately, I am not the owner of those.

I do however, have one of these. But the binocs would be much better for looking for comets.


56 posted on 01/02/2003 1:34:08 PM PST by Joe Hadenuf
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To: Joe Hadenuf
If you could lengthen the optical path outside the body of the scope enough to bring the eyepiece to the side of the body with prisms or flat mirrors, and then set up a pair of these so you could look through both like binoculars, you would have it. A different figure on the secondary would do it. Lengthening the optical path will reduce the clear aperture, so it is a tradeoff. But stereo vision adds enough to more than compensate. Make a periscope to check if the mirrors rotate the image, but I don't think they do when paired.
57 posted on 01/02/2003 1:39:14 PM PST by RightWhale
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