Presentation by Keith Rickard 22 April 2010 “Frankenscope” Presentation by Keith Rickard 22 April 2010
Frankenscope I needed a portable telescope to take to places such as Kelling Heath. My main telescope is stuck in its observatory It needs to allow me to do imaging as well as visual The solution is to be build Frankenscope!
Frankenscope What do you need to build Frankenscope? LX200 tripod A Julian Tworek home-made wedge A 10” LX200 fork mount without the OTA An ETX 90mm Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope A finderscope An SBIG CCD camera Some steel stud, aluminium square tube And nuts!
Throw it all together and you get… Frankenscope Throw it all together and you get…
M66 - Leo
M86 - Virgo
M105 & NGC3371 (Leo)
M57 - Lyra
M57 – in colour
The End