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Re: Freiberger compatible telescopes
From: Richard Reed
Date: 2010 Jul 29, 16:32 -0700
From: Richard Reed
Date: 2010 Jul 29, 16:32 -0700
If you can make metal things, Bill Morris describes on his site how he made a Freiberger rising piece to hold a monocular scope he made from some cut-up binoculars. It's at the end of this fairly long page of excellent pictures and text:
http://sextantbook.com/category/making-a-sextant-monocular-mounting/
Richard
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