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<\/a>Just a quick project, about half an hour to design and four hours printing. First print a pleasing success, a completely functional part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A Bahtinov Mask is used to get a precise focus, something I wrote about<\/a> a few years back.<\/p>\n\n\n For this mask I used a public bit of OpenSCAD code from Jens Scheidtmann<\/a> to generate the mask pattern, just tuning it for the correct sizing and performance with the TV-76. I added my own version of the support collar, making it a bit neater with fillets and properly sized to slip over the TV-76 glare shield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can download the SLT file for the mask from Cults3D<\/a> if you need to print your own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The part is one of a half dozen parts I have designed and printed over the last few weeks to reassemble the photo rig. A new guide camera mount, a mount for the ASI Air computer, a new glare shield for the guider, etc., etc… The utility of 3D printing a game changer for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For some reason I have gotten along without a focus mask for the TV-76. Need to fix that… Done. Just a quick project, about half an hour to design and four hours printing. First print a pleasing success, a completely functional part. A Bahtinov Mask is used to get a precise focus, something I wrote … Continue reading “A Bahtinov Mask for the TeleVue 76”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2793,34],"tags":[2796,279,582,584,583,158],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/CL25-07-23043-DC.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29305"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29330,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29305\/revisions\/29330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"A](\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/CL25-04-23043-DC-200x200.jpg\")
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