3" Levelscope

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This is my first attempt at a guidescope. I wanted to make a very light scope to sit on my c-8 for autoguiding so I scrounged through my treasures and came up with this.

It needs a little paint, But this is it with its cardboard cover installed.

The diagonal holder is simply a 1/2x1/2x1" rectangle of aluminum with a 45degree angle cut into it. You can see the quikcam on the left.

The secondary and the ccd camera are mounted together on a slide that slides to and away from the primary

I never liked this level anyway

The primary cell is a 1/2"piece of plexy. The cell is held to the mirror with 3 blobs of silicone. 3 screws with springs provide mirror ajustment.

Hopefully This will guide my  Celestron 8" scope for taking pictures. The heart of the system will be my Scrappy- Mount powered by Mells excelent stepper circuit, guided by the Quickam Autoguider that I got from Marty Neimi.

This pic shows  the slide parts and the secondary holder

This is how I put the slide through the side of the level.

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