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Re: Blish prism
From: Roger M. Derby
Date: 2000 Jul 13, 3:01 PM
From: Roger M. Derby
Date: 2000 Jul 13, 3:01 PM
They're at http://www.edmundscientific.com/ Didn't you just describe the standard prism from an old pair of binoculars? Roger ----- Original Message ----- From "Paul Hirose" <71202.2014@COMPUSERVE.COM> To:Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 3:09 AM Subject: [NAV-L] Blish prism > Here in the U.S., Edmund Scientific has been selling optics (surplus > and new) to experimenters since the 1940s. I'm pretty sure I've seen > in their catalog a prism of the type George Huxtable mentioned, i.e., > turns the line of sight 180 degrees and offsets it laterally some > considerable distance. > > They surely have a Web site, though I don't know the URL. A search > should turn it up easily, though. >