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Re: Inverting telescope for sextant
From: Bill B
Date: 2013 Dec 17, 09:27 -0500
From: Bill B
Date: 2013 Dec 17, 09:27 -0500
On 12/17/2013 2:54 AM, Alexandre Eremenko wrote: > The only modern sextant that I know which uses a classic, inverting Kepler > scope > (without prisms or extra glass) is SNO-T. > Everyone who tried an SNO-T inverting thinks it is better than > usual sextant telescopes. > The quality of image, magnification and field of view is like in a good > prismatic, but the weight is much less. Also of note are the wires (like a rectical) to help orient the sextant to the horizontal.
