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  • Members: 143
  • Category: Telescopes
  • Founded: Sep 25, 2007
  • Language: English
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A discussion group on schiefspieglers, Herschellian, CHiefspieglers, Yolos, off-axis Newtonians and other such scopes.


I was going through my stash of pyrex mirrors and found a 4.25 inch mirror that could be converted into a cute little F/5.7 Chief. It would be a short little thing. It uses 2 off-the-shelf lenses from OptoSigma.

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thoughts on the chief
A Newtonian is hard to beat. Easy to understand .Two mirrors works great. every time. any size .So why muddy the water making some thing that only a fiew
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Hi! I saw the S&T reference to "spiderless" and have now read all the postings and looked at some of the photos and files. I have three of the DGM Optics
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Things are too quiet!
Is everyone asleep in telescope land?
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Way to go Kevin!
Congratulations Kevin, nice picture and article in Sky & Tel. Now that you're famous can I get your autograph? Ed
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16 INCH F 10.3 SUPER CHIEF
ED and I are making a 16 f 10 offaxis CHief the telescope will be 8.5 ft and the EYEPIECE IS UNDER 4 FT from the primary .The primary 1 5/8 inch thick pyrex
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