The Surprising Historical application for the Meade ETX

[Chris]

Well 20 years ago is sort of history. Anyway, I hadn't come across this before and thought it was an interesting past application for the good old Meade ETX.

https://wegatoptical.com/about/

[vlaiv]

Reminded me of Ronja

http://ronja.twibright.com/tetrapolis/spec.php

It uses lens for transmission part:

I guess small mak would have much better performance than these Chinese magnifying glasses . Still interesting project for anyone interested.

 

 

[CCD-Freak]

I had one of the Wegat Optical 127 scopes.....I regret having sold it in a moment of "aperture envy"  )^8

 

 

[michael8554]

Saw that spec sheet and thought:

 "Help me Ronja, help-help me Ronja......."

Michael

[robin_astro]

On 16/12/2020 at 22:13, vlaiv said:

Reminded me of Ronja

http://ronja.twibright.com/tetrapolis/spec.php

It uses lens for transmission part:

http://images.twibright.com/tns/lvl3/1409.jpg

I guess small mak would have much better performance than these Chinese magnifying glasses . Still interesting project for anyone interested.

 

 

Reminded me of a project "Light Beam Communicator" in "Electronic Novelties for the Constructor" by EM Bradley (which predates the invention of the laser), one of the first books on electronics I had as a lad in the early 1960's

 

[Mandy D]

On 20/06/2022 at 21:09, robin_astro said:

Reminded me of a project "Light Beam Communicator" in "Electronic Novelties for the Constructor" by EM Bradley (which predates the invention of the laser), one of the first books on electronics I had as a lad in the early 1960's

 

 

Boys, huh? Because girls really would not have been interested in talking to each other back then and, of course, electronics would not have been a suitable interest either! Thankfully things have changed. V1 and V2 are some strange looking transistors!

[robin_astro]

15 hours ago, Mandy D said:

Thankfully things have changed.

Amen to that, though there is still some way to go in Physics. When I started my degree in 1969 there were just three women in my year (~5%). That has improved to ~25% now I understand

Cheers

Robin