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US 2016/0109695 A1Published application
Portable telescope
AssigneeApplied Invention, LLC
InventorsW. Daniel HILLIS, Taylor ROAN
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Abstract
A portable telescope that takes advantage of an offset optical pathway between the objective tube and eyepiece tube that allows adjustment of the eyepiece height independent of the objective tube elevation. A user-friendly, motorized, interactive, self-calibrating portable telescope with an offset optical path.
Claims29
A telescope comprising:
- an objective tube including an objective lens and an objective tube mirror,
- an eyepiece tube including an eyepiece viewer and an eyepiece tube mirror, and
- a connector defining an optical pathway between the objective tube and the eyepiece tube;
- wherein the objective tube and the eyepiece tube are each rotationally coupled with the connector;
- wherein the objective tube and the eyepiece tube are rotatable independently of one another in a rotational plane that is substantially orthogonal to the optical pathway, and
- wherein a visual representation of a particular object received through the objective lens remains in the eyepiece viewer via an optical train that includes the objective tube, the objective tube mirror, the optical pathway, the eyepiece tube mirror, and the eyepiece tube, despite a rotational change in the eyepiece tube relative to the objective tube.
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A method, comprising:
- rotationally coupling each of an objective tube and an eyepiece tube to a connector,
- wherein the objective tube includes an objective lens and an objective tube mirror,
- wherein the eyepiece tube includes an eyepiece viewer and an eyepiece tube mirror, and
- wherein the connector defines an optical pathway between the objective tube and the eyepiece tube,
- wherein the objective tube and the eyepiece tube are rotatable independently of one another in a rotational plane that is substantially orthogonal to the optical pathway;
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- visually representing of a particular object received through the objective lens in the eyepiece viewer via an optical train that includes the objective tube, the objective tube mirror, the optical pathway, the eyepiece tube mirror, and the eyepiece tube, despite a rotational change in the eyepiece tube relative to the objective tube.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.