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Protheus
Vaguely offended
Reged: 09/01/07
Posts: 4664
Loc: Illinois, US
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I always thought a binoviewer and a set of parfocal eyepieces would do that job.
Agreed! With the obvious advantage being the cozy cheek-to-cheek time spent viewing with yer sweetie! 
Yep. Worth a little loss in light gathering power to the prism. Why be 20 inches away when you can be two?  You can always buy a larger scope to compensate for any image trouble.
Chris
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"To tread the sharp edge of a sword;
to run on smooth-frozen ice,
one needs no footsteps to follow..."
"Well, people sometimes ask me 'how did you get involved in astronomy?' I said 'I got born, what's your problem?'" -- John Dobson
"In discussing the large-scale structure of the cosmos, astronomers sometimes say that space is curved, or that the universe is finite but unbounded. Whatever are they talking about?" -- Carl Sagan
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Shawn H
Pooh-Bah
Reged: 05/16/07
Posts: 1141
Loc: Southern France 43°56'N-4°50'E
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My wife just comes for a look every now & then, but since she just ordered me a 8mm Ethos for my birthday! I'll take her just the way she is!  Shawn
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18" David Lukehurst truss Dobson (being built)
xt10i with Telrad on 4" risers & feather touch focuser & huge Boston Red Sox decal
Starblast
15x70 Celestron Skymasters
35Stratus
27Pan
13 Ethos
8 Ethos
Orion ultrablock
Astronomik OIII
Tele Vue 2x barlow
Antares 1.6x barlow (2")
CATSEYE collimation tools
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pops
sage
Reged: 12/22/07
Posts: 337
Loc: Cadiz, Kentucky
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Uh, you must have a great wife! Not for the viewing part, but mine would kill me for the photo you posted! 
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Golden Pond Kentucky
10" Zhumell
Sky Commander
Celestron 114EQ
Telrad
Stratus 21mm
Stratus 13mm
Stratus 5mm
"If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got."
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Lamb0
professor emeritus
Reged: 07/25/07
Posts: 668
Loc: Fairbury, Nebraska
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You could do worse than one couple I know. The totally homemade work of mirror making woodcrafter's art of an 8" f/5 rich-field airline transportable Dob is his. The 18" f/4.5 Obsession is her's.
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werewolf6977
Lord High Smasher
Reged: 12/15/03
Posts: 7445
Loc: Hanover, Ohio
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Bunny has a whole list of objects she likes, so I don't mention "The Moon, Jupiter, Saturn, certain doubles, The Double cluster, M31, M57, ad nauseum." around her. Unless I've got my 10X50's with me. Then I end up aiming the Dob for here, and re-aquiring targets as she hasn't got that nudging thing down yet...
Edited by werewolf6977 (08/14/08 11:13 AM)
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Emma H
newbie
Reged: 07/05/08
Posts: 2
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This works the other way round too, you know - but at least when the split came I got custody of the telescope, so I guess that was fair!
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Protheus
Vaguely offended
Reged: 09/01/07
Posts: 4664
Loc: Illinois, US
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Bunny has a whole list of objects she likes, so I don't mention "The Moon, Jupiter, Saturn, certain doubles, The Double cluster, M31, M57, ad nauseum." around her. Unless I've got my 10X50's with me. Then I end up aiming the Dob for here, and re-aquiring targets as she hasn't got that nudging thing down yet...
Mine doesn't nudge much either. She's getting there. At least we have our scopes mostly on equatorial mounts, so it's just a matter of moving it about half an eyepiece-length to the west...
Chris
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"To tread the sharp edge of a sword;
to run on smooth-frozen ice,
one needs no footsteps to follow..."
"Well, people sometimes ask me 'how did you get involved in astronomy?' I said 'I got born, what's your problem?'" -- John Dobson
"In discussing the large-scale structure of the cosmos, astronomers sometimes say that space is curved, or that the universe is finite but unbounded. Whatever are they talking about?" -- Carl Sagan
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Snaproll
Post Laureate
Reged: 02/20/04
Posts: 3496
Loc: Wisconsin
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I never thought of it this way... I should have bought the C14 for my wife.... then when she takes it over I could talk her into giving it to me and buying her an upgrade 
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-Jim-
Happiness is a clear sky and a Denk II
old AP images and some new C14 Hyperstar images
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