Would this work?

[Zakalwe]

Sorry but Ijust gotta say it.....frac?

Hehe....same here. Mirrors are for people that need to check their makeup <ducks for cover and runs like hell....>

[pipnina]

Whats your experience of optical design?

Uhhh.

GCSE physics?

That counts, right?

[HD-AP]

Hi

What you are describing is like tct 's  or tilted component telescopes like sheifspiglers etc.

your's is a lot like the jones -hershelian design the cheispigler or cheif for short .Here is a link

      http://opticaleds.site88.net/The%20CHiefspiegler.htm

[Kropster]

It's good to see people thinking about telescope design and ways to improve it.

There can't be any harm in that, but don't spend money on developing a new design without doing very thorough homework first.

[animal666]

why go to all the effort of offsetting and the problems it causes when you could just set the secondary in a piece of glass

similar to the Skywatcher 190MN Mak Newt.

but maybe just a cheaper straight piece..

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[Dave Lloyd]

No, it has no vanes. The secondary is mounted on a glass corrector "lens".

Ah right oh.

[Dr Hamzonian]

I just wanted to say that I am finding this discussion incredibly enligthening Keep it up.

Here is my contribution: How about reflective curved vanes? what would that result in?

[Kropster]

I just wanted to say that I am finding this discussion incredibly enligthening Keep it up.

Here is my contribution: How about reflective curved vanes? what would that result in?

Lots of unwanted reflections perhaps?

[nytecam]

William Herschel used some of his reflectors off-axis without a secondary or its support! A single reflection greatly increased the object brightness with speculum mirrors for his day but the tilt off axis was very small. The design as proposed is gross and wouldn't satisfy me - the view/images would be horrid - sorry. You've got to have optics correctly aligned for quality views etc.

[nytecam]

William Herschel used some of his reflectors off-axis without a secondary or its support! A single reflection greatly increased the object brightness with speculum mirrors for his day but the tilt off axis was very small. The design as proposed is gross and wouldn't satisfy me - the view/images would be horrid - sorry. You've got to have optics correctly aligned for quality views etc.