Re: dobson
Posted: 2015-03-11 19:00:31
Ang Paracorr mm och mitt teleskop bygge med US försäljaren i Los Angeles.
Eftersom jag är dit ibland samt Oregon Star Party som han har som distrikt.
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Hi Don !
Hakan from Sweden here.
To bad I did not know about you as I was in LA in februari.
Do you talk mm or inches ?
Don ; Metric is just fine with me.
This will become a bigger e-mail,, sorry.
First the Paracorr.
As I understand you, I will only be in a gain use that for my F/4.0 17.8” mirror. ( Sweden grinded )
Guy has grinded for 30 years or so, but is it good ( future will tell )
No second thoughts about that, vs the Paracorr, or?
Grinder said you can use it with no Paracorr, by the way.
Don ; Every newtonian CAN be used without a Paracorr (or other coma corrector--I sell 3 brands)but here is the math:
The coma-free zone of a scope (where coma is smaller than the Airy disk) is 0.01778mm x the f/ratio cubed.
CFZ = 0.1778mm x f/r³
At f/4, the coma-free zone is only 1.14mm wide!
Your scope will have a focal plane in the focuser 50.8mm wide (46mm in the largest possible 50.8mm eyepiece).
That means coma is SEVERE at the edge of a 10mm field, and horrible at the edge of a 20mm field.
Star images at the edge of a 40mm field would be over 11X as wide as they are tall.
I plan to get a Antares 3.5” secondary as I told you.
What wave will be best? ( 1/12, 1/14, 1/18, 1/20 or 1/30 )
Don ; Secondary mirrors are measured in accuracy on the surface. The reflected image is worse by 1.414X.
I went with the 1/30 wave on my own scope because I have a Carl Zambuto primary and did not want to diminish that quality.
But I think a 1/20 wave is just fine.
( Primary mirror is told to hold Ronchi 1/6 wave.
It is a plate-glass real thin mirror at only 0.9”, so I must have a good sling or edge support to it.
Don ; The best sling is a Howie Glatter wire sling, but that mirror can also be well-supported by a whiffle-tree edge support.
Use at least an 18 point cell designed by PLOP, and 27 points may be even better.
Later more on that, just some info here for start.
I like it at 60” height and a short focuser.
Don ; At f/4, the focuser will probably be higher than that, but less than 70".
Remember, the shorter the focuser, the higher off the ground the focuser will be.
I plan to make a own focuser at 36 mm and a 19 mm travel.
Don ; With a Paracorr, you will be able to get away with a 19mm travel. If you don't use a Paracorr, you will need more travel--like 38mm.
But the Paracorr is 75 mm long on the “ sleeve ( will that be a problem ? Stick out in tube, or ?
Don ; It won't matter if the Paracorr protrudes from the bottom of the focuser. Since it is threaded for 48mm filters, that might make it convenient to mount filters there.
I can make it myself, but I can also get a Feathertouch focuser, but I don’t know how thick they are, and you was NOT into a SIPS.
Don ; FeatherTouch and Moonlite are the two best focusers for normal loads (there are better ones for cameras). Both are less than 50mm tall.
Most FT focusers do not come with the SIPS, so using a regular Paracorr doesn't mean you cannot use an FT focuser.
I don’t know yet how I will go on the eyepiece.
Whit the Paracorr and the 21 mm Ethos ( good review on it ) for low powers that is 100 in mag.
Whit no Paracorr it is 86 mag.
The Ethos 17 mm has also a good review, so whit the Paracorr the mag will be 122.
Less the Paracorr it will be at 106 mag.
Don ; A 450mm mirror is large enough that 100X could be a low power. True field would be: (36.2/2080)x57.296 = 1 degree.
Mel Bartel think if I get just 1 eyepiece now I would stay in mid powers ( as Al Nagler thought )
You think I would stay in mid powers at 100 or at 150.
Don ; Mid power is usually 10 to 20X per inch of aperture = 178-356X That makes a 10mm in the mid power range. A 17mm would be a lower power eyepiece.
A 21-13-8 set would be a good combination--99x/160x/260x, but a 17-10-6 set would work well too--122x/208x/347x
If seeing turbulence is low where you live, the second set would be more practical for DSOs, but the first set would give larger true fields and be less subject to seeing problems.
I know I need 2 to 3 eyepieces, so I'll like just now has one good one I will use often and start with.
I'm into Ethos series as to be using it later on when I plan going bigger on mirrors. ( future will tell, allot of work.. )
Don ; If the future holds larger mirrors, with, perhaps, longer focal lengths, then the 21-13-8mm set is more practical.
I has been told here in Sweden a Paracorr and 100 degree eyepiece is just “glass on glass top of glass and more glass”
It will gain you nothing. All this glass just get seeing bad and change image, maybe to the worse.
Don ; You are talking TeleVue, here. The Delos and Ethos are the very best eyepieces tested at Ciel et Espace (on-line) on the wavefront.
My very best lifetime image of Jupiter was with a PowerMate, Paracorr, and Ethos eyepiece (18 elements!) and over 2kg in the focuser.
I've observed for 52 years, and that was my best image in any scope at any time. 456X in my 32cm scope.
People who say that have not used TeleVue glass. It's just that simple. You have a lot of light grasp in 450mm, so losing a couple percent is nothing.
Remember, a 10% loss is still only 0.1 magnitude. Can you see 0.1 magnitude? I sure can't.
People say it makes a difference in how faint a galaxy they can see. No, it doesn't. The transparency of the air fluctuates 0.5 magnitude over a night.
No difference in eyepieces can make that much difference. What ever is visible in one eyepiece is visible in another.
I actually found I could see fainter stars WITH the Paracorr than without, because the stars were all a lot more tightly-focused.
They say to me ; Do a short focuser and no Paracorr and a 68 degree good quality eyepiece, that's where you will get your best visual seeing ( at less weight and price )
Don ; Less price, yes. But anyone advising no coma correction at f/4 is willing to put up with bad star images in 90% of the field.
With a paracorr and an Ethos, I have seen the core of M15 fully resolved into tiny stars all the way from center until it leaves the field of view 50 degrees off axis.
Would you like to own a 450mm refractor? That is how your reflector's images will look, but only WITH the Paracorr.
I just put it in the focuser and use it with every eyepiece. I don't even know it is there.
I do understand that it is nice to get a bigger angle.
Al Nagler told me the 100 degree gets a low power eyepiece, but in a vision as it look at higher powers.
Don ; Yes, you can use higher powers because the field does not get too small. In my 32cm, my favorite eyepiece is a 10mm at 183X, and my field of view
is still larger than the Full Moon.
As I’m new into this, so I need advice.
I has no trouble pay for good parts if it is in evolution what was before Don.
As the Paracorr do play a role in the eyepiece and mag, this is now a good question to solve here!
Don ; At f/4, I would not even contemplate the use of a scope without correction of coma. So plan your scope, allow for about 12-13mm additional in-travel of the focuser to put the Paracorr in position.
Now over to mirror cell as I like to CAD this up now and get things going for the machines.
Mel Bartel told me this ;
"Actually I mount *all* my mirrors with two edge supports exactly at 90 degrees separation (not 88, not something else). This per R.N.
Wilson's analysis in "Reflecting Telescope Optics, Volume II"."
Don ; This can work. I prefer the Glatter wire sling, and a 4-point Whiffle Tree support will work great.
I see you sell Glatter parts.
He does sling, right ?
Can you show me a drawing on that or a picture (is it a sling deal?)
Don ; Since every scope is different, Howie only sells these direct to customers because they are made special for each person.
I use it on my own scope, too.
Howie sell laser collimators. ( I need one )
Don ; Yes. I sell Howies lasers, and you need a Glatter Tublug to go with it to collimate the primary.
Since you will easily be able to see up inside your focuser from the bottom, you could just get a Glatter laser and a barlow attachment for the bottom.
That's a lot cheaper and works just as well.
I has read, using a wires can be a problem, therefore a nylon band etc.
Don ; No. The nylon bands put pressure on the edge of the mirror in an irregular fashion and are to be avoided.
They will cause astigmatism to appear in the images.
2 points of support in the center of gravity 90 degrees apart is simplest, but the wire sling works fine, or a whiffle tree.
But installation points position, and how thick band to my thin mirror?
It is 23 mm thick and sigatta is 7 mm if my memory is correct. (that is 16 mm left)
Don ; Here is a calculator to show where to put the supports on the edge:
http://www.cruxis.com/scope/mirroredgecalculator.htm
I think I has a good solution on my mirror cell made up.
Keep me posted.
Br, Hakan, Sweden.
P.S.
My telescope will look like this construction, se web.
I will make rings in aluminium at 6 mm.
Bars at 35 mm aluminium and wall thickness at 1.5 mm.
Balls and mounts in CNC aluminium for the bars.
Secondary in a carbon fibre mount and spindle wire.
Mirror cell in CNC aluminium ( plop 18 pts ) with a good support system.
It will be in a fork system. Portable.
I will use a good eyepiece and related stuff.
http://www.astronomy.co.nz/shop/item.as ... s-ota/137/
Eftersom jag är dit ibland samt Oregon Star Party som han har som distrikt.
----------------------------
Hi Don !
Hakan from Sweden here.
To bad I did not know about you as I was in LA in februari.
Do you talk mm or inches ?
Don ; Metric is just fine with me.
This will become a bigger e-mail,, sorry.
First the Paracorr.
As I understand you, I will only be in a gain use that for my F/4.0 17.8” mirror. ( Sweden grinded )
Guy has grinded for 30 years or so, but is it good ( future will tell )
No second thoughts about that, vs the Paracorr, or?
Grinder said you can use it with no Paracorr, by the way.
Don ; Every newtonian CAN be used without a Paracorr (or other coma corrector--I sell 3 brands)but here is the math:
The coma-free zone of a scope (where coma is smaller than the Airy disk) is 0.01778mm x the f/ratio cubed.
CFZ = 0.1778mm x f/r³
At f/4, the coma-free zone is only 1.14mm wide!
Your scope will have a focal plane in the focuser 50.8mm wide (46mm in the largest possible 50.8mm eyepiece).
That means coma is SEVERE at the edge of a 10mm field, and horrible at the edge of a 20mm field.
Star images at the edge of a 40mm field would be over 11X as wide as they are tall.
I plan to get a Antares 3.5” secondary as I told you.
What wave will be best? ( 1/12, 1/14, 1/18, 1/20 or 1/30 )
Don ; Secondary mirrors are measured in accuracy on the surface. The reflected image is worse by 1.414X.
I went with the 1/30 wave on my own scope because I have a Carl Zambuto primary and did not want to diminish that quality.
But I think a 1/20 wave is just fine.
( Primary mirror is told to hold Ronchi 1/6 wave.
It is a plate-glass real thin mirror at only 0.9”, so I must have a good sling or edge support to it.
Don ; The best sling is a Howie Glatter wire sling, but that mirror can also be well-supported by a whiffle-tree edge support.
Use at least an 18 point cell designed by PLOP, and 27 points may be even better.
Later more on that, just some info here for start.
I like it at 60” height and a short focuser.
Don ; At f/4, the focuser will probably be higher than that, but less than 70".
Remember, the shorter the focuser, the higher off the ground the focuser will be.
I plan to make a own focuser at 36 mm and a 19 mm travel.
Don ; With a Paracorr, you will be able to get away with a 19mm travel. If you don't use a Paracorr, you will need more travel--like 38mm.
But the Paracorr is 75 mm long on the “ sleeve ( will that be a problem ? Stick out in tube, or ?
Don ; It won't matter if the Paracorr protrudes from the bottom of the focuser. Since it is threaded for 48mm filters, that might make it convenient to mount filters there.
I can make it myself, but I can also get a Feathertouch focuser, but I don’t know how thick they are, and you was NOT into a SIPS.
Don ; FeatherTouch and Moonlite are the two best focusers for normal loads (there are better ones for cameras). Both are less than 50mm tall.
Most FT focusers do not come with the SIPS, so using a regular Paracorr doesn't mean you cannot use an FT focuser.
I don’t know yet how I will go on the eyepiece.
Whit the Paracorr and the 21 mm Ethos ( good review on it ) for low powers that is 100 in mag.
Whit no Paracorr it is 86 mag.
The Ethos 17 mm has also a good review, so whit the Paracorr the mag will be 122.
Less the Paracorr it will be at 106 mag.
Don ; A 450mm mirror is large enough that 100X could be a low power. True field would be: (36.2/2080)x57.296 = 1 degree.
Mel Bartel think if I get just 1 eyepiece now I would stay in mid powers ( as Al Nagler thought )
You think I would stay in mid powers at 100 or at 150.
Don ; Mid power is usually 10 to 20X per inch of aperture = 178-356X That makes a 10mm in the mid power range. A 17mm would be a lower power eyepiece.
A 21-13-8 set would be a good combination--99x/160x/260x, but a 17-10-6 set would work well too--122x/208x/347x
If seeing turbulence is low where you live, the second set would be more practical for DSOs, but the first set would give larger true fields and be less subject to seeing problems.
I know I need 2 to 3 eyepieces, so I'll like just now has one good one I will use often and start with.
I'm into Ethos series as to be using it later on when I plan going bigger on mirrors. ( future will tell, allot of work.. )
Don ; If the future holds larger mirrors, with, perhaps, longer focal lengths, then the 21-13-8mm set is more practical.
I has been told here in Sweden a Paracorr and 100 degree eyepiece is just “glass on glass top of glass and more glass”
It will gain you nothing. All this glass just get seeing bad and change image, maybe to the worse.
Don ; You are talking TeleVue, here. The Delos and Ethos are the very best eyepieces tested at Ciel et Espace (on-line) on the wavefront.
My very best lifetime image of Jupiter was with a PowerMate, Paracorr, and Ethos eyepiece (18 elements!) and over 2kg in the focuser.
I've observed for 52 years, and that was my best image in any scope at any time. 456X in my 32cm scope.
People who say that have not used TeleVue glass. It's just that simple. You have a lot of light grasp in 450mm, so losing a couple percent is nothing.
Remember, a 10% loss is still only 0.1 magnitude. Can you see 0.1 magnitude? I sure can't.
People say it makes a difference in how faint a galaxy they can see. No, it doesn't. The transparency of the air fluctuates 0.5 magnitude over a night.
No difference in eyepieces can make that much difference. What ever is visible in one eyepiece is visible in another.
I actually found I could see fainter stars WITH the Paracorr than without, because the stars were all a lot more tightly-focused.
They say to me ; Do a short focuser and no Paracorr and a 68 degree good quality eyepiece, that's where you will get your best visual seeing ( at less weight and price )
Don ; Less price, yes. But anyone advising no coma correction at f/4 is willing to put up with bad star images in 90% of the field.
With a paracorr and an Ethos, I have seen the core of M15 fully resolved into tiny stars all the way from center until it leaves the field of view 50 degrees off axis.
Would you like to own a 450mm refractor? That is how your reflector's images will look, but only WITH the Paracorr.
I just put it in the focuser and use it with every eyepiece. I don't even know it is there.
I do understand that it is nice to get a bigger angle.
Al Nagler told me the 100 degree gets a low power eyepiece, but in a vision as it look at higher powers.
Don ; Yes, you can use higher powers because the field does not get too small. In my 32cm, my favorite eyepiece is a 10mm at 183X, and my field of view
is still larger than the Full Moon.
As I’m new into this, so I need advice.
I has no trouble pay for good parts if it is in evolution what was before Don.
As the Paracorr do play a role in the eyepiece and mag, this is now a good question to solve here!
Don ; At f/4, I would not even contemplate the use of a scope without correction of coma. So plan your scope, allow for about 12-13mm additional in-travel of the focuser to put the Paracorr in position.
Now over to mirror cell as I like to CAD this up now and get things going for the machines.
Mel Bartel told me this ;
"Actually I mount *all* my mirrors with two edge supports exactly at 90 degrees separation (not 88, not something else). This per R.N.
Wilson's analysis in "Reflecting Telescope Optics, Volume II"."
Don ; This can work. I prefer the Glatter wire sling, and a 4-point Whiffle Tree support will work great.
I see you sell Glatter parts.
He does sling, right ?
Can you show me a drawing on that or a picture (is it a sling deal?)
Don ; Since every scope is different, Howie only sells these direct to customers because they are made special for each person.
I use it on my own scope, too.
Howie sell laser collimators. ( I need one )
Don ; Yes. I sell Howies lasers, and you need a Glatter Tublug to go with it to collimate the primary.
Since you will easily be able to see up inside your focuser from the bottom, you could just get a Glatter laser and a barlow attachment for the bottom.
That's a lot cheaper and works just as well.
I has read, using a wires can be a problem, therefore a nylon band etc.
Don ; No. The nylon bands put pressure on the edge of the mirror in an irregular fashion and are to be avoided.
They will cause astigmatism to appear in the images.
2 points of support in the center of gravity 90 degrees apart is simplest, but the wire sling works fine, or a whiffle tree.
But installation points position, and how thick band to my thin mirror?
It is 23 mm thick and sigatta is 7 mm if my memory is correct. (that is 16 mm left)
Don ; Here is a calculator to show where to put the supports on the edge:
http://www.cruxis.com/scope/mirroredgecalculator.htm
I think I has a good solution on my mirror cell made up.
Keep me posted.
Br, Hakan, Sweden.
P.S.
My telescope will look like this construction, se web.
I will make rings in aluminium at 6 mm.
Bars at 35 mm aluminium and wall thickness at 1.5 mm.
Balls and mounts in CNC aluminium for the bars.
Secondary in a carbon fibre mount and spindle wire.
Mirror cell in CNC aluminium ( plop 18 pts ) with a good support system.
It will be in a fork system. Portable.
I will use a good eyepiece and related stuff.
http://www.astronomy.co.nz/shop/item.as ... s-ota/137/