Cloudy Nights 8 inch F/7 group build

I started a thread on Cloudy Nights for a group build of an 8 inch F/7 Chief. I have had a custom lens make to mate with a Newport Optics COTS lens so that all the optics for this design can be bought and assembled into an unobstructed telescope. The 8 inch F/7 is a standard primary listed on Discovery’s web site. The concave corrector I am having made, the convex corrector is a Newport optics KPX205 lens and is listed for $75. Then it uses a 2 inch secondary mirror and a standard 2.14 inch mirror will work fine from a number of suppliers. Below is the optical prescription in Zemax for the 90 degree layout although other layout are possible

Here is a closeup of the correctors with coordinates taken from the Zemax layout.

Here is a link to CAD files and Zemax files.

http://8inchF7CHiefCN.IGS

http://8inchF7CHiefCN.SAT

http://8inchF7CHiefCN.STL

http://8inchF7CHiefCN.STP

http://8inchF7CHiefCN.ZMX

http://8inchF7CHiefCNnofold.ZMX

http://8 inch F7 correctors.png

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