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No, I experimented with Thorlabs 4, 7 and 11 degree prisms and settled on the 6. (I think the PH is 4 degrees?).
The “11” worked best but deviated the beam too much for my SXVH9 camera chip. A bigger camera would probably work but I couldn’t retask my Atik460.
Anyway, the easiest assembly method is to use standard eyepiece holders/spacers and just screw the four components together! An optical train of 50mm collimating lens, prism, grating and 80mm camera lens as per Burwitz’s design. A guider at one end (Paul Gerlach’s works well) and an camera connector at the other such as a T2/1.25″ nosepiece type. All that’s needed is a printed tube/jacket so that the assembly can be rotated/focused at each end (to align the prism/grating with the slit and the camera).
Having built it I now know what needs putting right (!) and I’m redesigning the optics holders and guider. I’ll ‘publish’ the stl files in a couple of weeks.
Regards
T