Phase Telescope from Eyepieces
Phase Telescope from Eyepieces
I believe I read that two eyepieces can be used to get an image of the phase rings for alignment and verification, so I gave it a try. (I believe Phil-Apochronaut was the one that stated this.) I took a piece of 1" plastic pipe and came up with the following that works pretty well. At least it is better than nothing. It actually gives a pretty nice image of the annuli. I just used the 10x AO 161 eyepiece already in the 'scope, and I had a 15x AO 147 eyepiece as the second unit. The 'scope is an AO Fifty-Phase, and the following pictures show what I came up with. I included a sketch with dimensions if anyone is interested.
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- Phase Scope Lo-Res_4.JPG (52.96 KiB) Viewed 2780 times
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- Phase Scope Lo-Res_2.JPG (87.72 KiB) Viewed 2780 times
Re: Phase Telescope from Eyepieces
Nice and simple... Thanks
Re: Phase Telescope from Eyepieces
One of those situations where a picture is worth 1000 words, should be helpful.