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Focusing
Forum List | Follow Ups | Post Message | Back to Thread Topics | In Response To Posted by Daniel Johnson on November 28, 2002 03:18:17 UTC |
There are many ways to focus. One way that works is to rig some way to make an old eyepiece perfectly parfocal with your camera. By rummaging through a dozen old eyepieces, an couple of old diagonals, and by using the Parfocal Ring sold by scopetronix.com , I was able to find a combination whereby I could plop in an old diagonal-plus-eyepiece-plus-parfocalizing-ring and have it reach focus exactly at the same plane as my camera-plus-T-adapter combination. I made sure one day, by focusing on a distant glint of sunlight, that the camera was at perfect focus on the scope. Then I took the camera off and put in the old diagonal/old eyepiece, and slid the eyepiece carefully in and out of the diagonal until it reached perfect focus, and screwed the parfocal ring tight. I have a ton of old eyepieces and diagonals, plus old barlows, and I tried every combination. I could only make one come to focus, but it is perfect. I focus through the eyepiece on a star, and I know the camera will be fine when I put it on the scope in place of the eyepiece.
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