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BlueMirror bottom (azimuth) plate added (v. 1.1)
well, the plate was pretty easy. i’ve made it too small though. mistake. worse, i then took out a bit of the top plate to make it easier to see the bottom plate. second mistake. oh well. it’s not that important – the compass is now unnecessary anyway. but still a rush of blood to […]
ideas for version 1.1
so, this mount has been working for a few months now. it had a good run in spain in the summer and was fantastic in the dark welsh skies this christmas. the one feature of the mount that is not so good, though, is the azimuth scale. the compass always a bit of a bodge […]
a binocular mirror mount: capeMirror v. 1.0
so here is capeMirror version 1.0. the binocular mirror mount no-one has been waiting for! iIt had no ‘bottom plate’. It was just directly attached to the tripod (a manfrotto). It also had no azimuth scale – just a compass. but it worked very nicely. very happy with it. needs a lick of paint. Ben
capeMirror version 1.0 plans
capeMirror version 1.0 having pondered this quite a while since the trip to morocco, i’ve now got a fairly good idea about how to build this binocular mirror mount. i also seem to have settled on a name (which is possibly even more important): “baltaz” – a binocular mirror mount in altitude and azimuth. these […]
BlueMirror
the world’s first (I think) laptop-controlled binocular mirror mount. for those not yet ‘in the know’, the binocular mirror mount is designed to make star-gazing easy with a pair of binos. the usual problem is pretty simple: holding binoculars up to see the sky gets tiring (and therefore wobbly) pretty quickly. over time, humanity has […]
