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Re: Lights,Leds and scopes etc.
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2003 Oct 14, 10:13 -0400
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2003 Oct 14, 10:13 -0400
Bruce, It's difficult to control. Fred On Monday, Oct 13, 2003, at 21:29 US/Eastern, Bruce Stark wrote: > Fred, > > I'd hoped that a Russian scope might fit the Tamaya, & was asking if > anyone > knew. I'm guessing the Tamaya was based on a German model, and someone > said the > Russian sextants were made in East Germany. The sliding-fit attachment > on the > Tamaya provides an excellent in-or-out adjustment for fine tuning the > comparative brightness of the reflected and direct images. Figured it > might be pretty > standard. > > Anyway, I'd like to have collimating wires in a scope for the longer > distances. But 12X? Holy mackerel! Can you control that thing on a > handheld sextant? > > Bruce > >
