8 Dec
2008
8 Dec
'08
10:17 p.m.
I have an old lens that I think came out of a theater spotlight. It's about 6" in diameter, flat on one side, convex on the other. I've tried holding it at arms length while holding an eyepiece to my eye and found that the combination can magnify things. I'm curious if it might make for an objective lens in a home-brew refractor, if I were to mount it up in some kind of tube or something? |\ | | |/ I'm not an optics expert by any stretch, but curious if it would be worth the effort to put together into some kind of frankenstein refractor. Thoughts? Dan -- Kiva.org - Loans That Change Lives