There is one roof prism in this accessory
.
This roof prism consume long focal path
(about
90 mm) . So it is good to make a small size finder .
I used D=25mm f=100 mm objective lens from
junk bino and no tube was needed .
The eye piece ( konig type 25 mm 52
deg )is also from broken bino .
The mag power is 4 times and the
diameter
of exit pupil is 6 mm .So the field of view of this finder is bright
enough
to see the cross without inner light .
Erected or inverted ?
It is said that ,
-Erect
image finder is suitable to compare with the image by naked eyes and
star
map
-Up side down image finder is suitable to compare with the image of the parent telescope.
I think small size view finder
should
be erect image type because it is mainly used to compare with the real
star pattern in the sky .
But many of the small view finders
on the sold telescopes have up side down images . The main reason of it
is " more cheap than erect type "
Inclined
eye piece and site
It is common sense to make it straight
between the objective lens and eye piece of the view finder .
But this is not comfortable to look through
when installed on the refractor and cassegrain type .
There exist some 45 deg or 90 deg
inclined
finder but those are not good to catch the objects in its field of view
.You may wonder the the use of those finder .
To solve this dilemma I adopt the
pointer
like my ergonomics telescope series .
This pointer works as a cap for the
objective shown like below .
Setting
L bracket is used to set on the telescope.