View Single Post
  #85  
Old 23-09-2017, 11:47 PM
DJT (David)
Registered User

DJT is offline
 
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Sydney
Posts: 1,452
Quote:
Originally Posted by Atmos View Post
It's more to do with image scale than focal length. For your camera something around the 1000mm range would be good. So a 8" F/5 or 10" F/4 or 12" F/3

http://www.astrobin.com/full/287438/D/
This was shot at 677mm on a night of awful seeing.
I remembered this article from way back which has a great nomogram showing the relationship between pixel size, focal length and image scale.

Interesting article as well.

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astro...ocal-reducers/
Reply With Quote