SudiBall
Sudiball
Rogues Gallery
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A PDF introducing a type of ball & socket telescope mount that doesn't have a ball called a SudiBall (2013)
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Prior Art by "Unknown at Stellafane". (1999 Summer)
Chuck Lott & David Davis who constructed the first instances of this family of designs.(2013)
Chuck Lott's 'SSSS Mimi Me' bicycle rims (2017 Summer)
Chuck Lott's "CloverBall" bicycle rims (2018 Winter)
Chuck Lott's "BigRed Lite" bicycle rims (2018 Summer)
Chuck Lott's "Eight inch Orion conversion" (2018 Summer)
GitHub repository for this projects digital/vector drawings(2013)
Annotated Gallery for the (first) 30" Baltic Birch OSP Sudiball build (2013)
SudiBall at the Oregon Star Party Walkabout (2013 well worth looking at all the years)
Annotated Galleries for 6" F8 classic tube Newtonian (2017, 20018)
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Annotated Gallery for laser cut 10" F5 classic tube Newtonian (2019 summer OSP)
Gallery for a 6" F4 trussed Sudiball with a base that tracks by John Cross (2020)
Website of Luigi Ruffini's independently conceived "Spherae" (2022)
Someone did the Math!!! (2020)
An interactive wire frame rendering of a Sudiball
Fix Point Secondary
Came up with a design for a secondary mirror mount that does not shift the secondary when it is tilted,
I am calling it a
FixPoint (secondary) mount
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