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Old 13-09-2009, 06:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Grahame View Post
Using a canon 40D and an 8" GSO RC I took the following image - I have never seen stars quite like this before. I suspect the scope needs collimation, but would this alone cause the image to appear as it is?

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Grahame.
Graheme....how did you mount the camera? Was this an afocal image? Did you use any sort of focal reducer?

Rgds
Peter
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