This is not a good setup for group viewing. Your iris is almost fully closed in daylight. I found using the binoviewer in daylight was very difficult to get my eyes positioned just right. Combined with the small exit pupil produced by high power with a small aperture, and I think that any but experienced observers would not be able to see with both eyes at the same time. On the 8" refractor, it would be much better since the telescope would produce a larger exit pupil. But remember that every single user would have to adjust not only the interpupilary distance, but the individual diopter adjustments as well. Binoviewers are much easier to use if your irises are open fully. In daylight, it's a pain. Seeing the sun isn psuedostereo is cool, but there's a trick to it. On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 10:05 PM, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com>wrote:
Interesting that the eyepiece and binoviewer are as big as the OTA. :)
I hope you can bring the setup to a SPOC star party this year. Arrive early during the unofficial social hour and we can all have a look.
'Course now you have me wondering if we can hook the club's binoviewer to the Daystar when hooked to the Bogdan...
patrick
On 30 Mar 2013, at 21:41, Chuck Hards wrote:
Here's the pic of the PST/binoviewer setup, on my small GEM:
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii24/JethroTull1958/ATM/PSTampbinoviewer0...
It was pretty neat seeing the sun in H-a with both eyes, a first for me.
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