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Anyone else get as pumped about it as me? Once in a lifetime opportunity.

 

I started my making a projection viewer, which started with a 12 pack box, but it wasn't far enough away to enlarge the spot, so I added a chip box to no avail, then I broke out the heavy artillery and used a packing tube. I wanted as large as a spot as possible. I read that it was the size equivalent of putting a 1/4" dot on a paper plate and walking 45 feet away.

 

The rig:

 

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Honing it in on a friends truck:

 

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Best I could do:

 

Dot shadow around 4-5 o'clock

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Dot shadow near the edge around 4-5 o'clock

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It was really easy to see with my naked eye in the box, but getting it to translate onto my camera phone was another story.

 

Rob

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