Interesting Binoscope Creation

[John]

I found this interesting binoscope project created from a pair of old Celestron C8 optical tubes on another forum. Quite an impressive instrument !. The eyepieces are a pair of 17mm Tele Vue Ethos that have actually been machined a little to help with the interpupilliary range. Someone confident of their machining abilities !

I understand that the owner is planning a C11 based binoscope soon

[Knighty2112]

Some body's got a good workshop for sure. Very nice!

[triton1]

That,s a very neat job I impressed.I can,t afford a tv let alone two but to then turn them down mmmm!

[MarsG76]

That is AWESOME... I WANT ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Peter Drew]

Very nicely done. I've experimented with catadioptric binoscopes in the past due to their desirable compactness and freedom from CA, however I was always put off by the high magnifications that seemed to negate the binocular wide field effect, the instrument shown would be working at around 125x. 

[RobertI]

An amazing piece of engineering, I'd love to see the views. I can't help thinking that mirror shift or flop would cause alignment problems between the two tubes and double vision. I guess it must be working for the owner though otherwise they wouldn't be thinking of a C11 version. 

[Telescope40]

Holy moley !!! Any user review info ??? I'd be more than happy to give one ... Like to think I would just grin till Xmas and beyond !!!

John

[Paz]

Very nice - I wouldn't mind one of those!

[catman161]

Man that's some awesome work gone into creating that!

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