Here (attached) is my final spreadsheet. It assumes that with the Paracorr at a midrange setting of 3 the distance from the eyepiece shoulder flange of the Paracorr to the focal plane of the Paracorr is the ideal 55mm as specified by TeleVue. This plus a bunch of help from Don has taken my spreadsheet out of the realm of empirical, and into the range of being precise in its attempt to choose the optimal tunable top setting which achieves the closest to the ideal of 55mm spacing between the focal plane (FP) of the Paracorr and the focal plane (FP) of the eyepiece. Oddly, though it is in quite high agreement with the TeleVue eyepiece chart for the Paracorr setting of choice (even for the use of the 1.25" adapter), it is not 100% exact. Being quite biased, I'm personally inclined to believe my own spreadsheet in the few areas where it differs from TeleVue's suggestion for the ideal tunable top setting. If you had previously downloaded my earlier attempt at this spreadsheet, please delete it and replace it with this one. The moderators have my permission to eliminate my earlier spreadsheet attachment (post and all if necessary).
As always, please let me know if my UNIX based "OpenOffice" spreadsheet software translates this properly to the Microsoft Excel format. Despite my best efforts to save things in the proper Excel format, sometimes the translation gets a bit jumbled in its formatting, formulas, etc... Excel is not available in UNIX......
As always, kick the tires, and feel free to fix any mistakes I may have made, or improve upon my ideas as you see fit.
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