Hi everyone 
I was looking for ideas to make my scope more portable and stumbled upon this page:
http://strock.pi.r2.3.14159.free.fr/Ast/Strock250/10-Gilles.html
(bottom of the page)
It's in French - it can be translated by e.g. google or altavista.
It looks awesome for me - the whole scope collapses into a briefcase! I am actually thinking to have removable mirror cell and spider and transfer them to the new design for travel, and put them back to closed tube for suburban observing.
Are those carbon fiber tubes really stiff enough? What do you think?
I was looking for ideas to make my scope more portable and stumbled upon this page:
http://strock.pi.r2.3.14159.free.fr/Ast/Strock250/10-Gilles.html
(bottom of the page)
It's in French - it can be translated by e.g. google or altavista.
It looks awesome for me - the whole scope collapses into a briefcase! I am actually thinking to have removable mirror cell and spider and transfer them to the new design for travel, and put them back to closed tube for suburban observing.
Are those carbon fiber tubes really stiff enough? What do you think?
8" f/5.9 truss tube newtonian, made from scratch 8)
