Lexington (CV-2) gun sight

Sun Feb 9 16:30:04 CST 2014

On 2/9/2014 5:05 PM, Alex Fraser wrote:
> That's very interesting.  I got one of those too, but didn't know it 
> was a gun sight.  Mine came off of a high speed camera used for 
> tracking missiles. I guess they used what was available.

  After the war these scopes were used on many projects. Do you remember 
the late 50's Moonwatch program?
Some of these scopes were modified to accept larger objective lenses and 
used to refine satellite orbits.

http://www.geocities.jp/toshimi_taki/telescope/moonwatch.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Moonwatch

  One of those old Edmund Scientific Moonwatch scopes now serves as a 
finder on my 8" Newtonian reflector.

More images: *http://tinyurl.com/kv2nlbw*
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