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Originally Posted by RKenning
Alex - It could be one of these scope hogs causing problems.
Hope you get it sorted out.
Cheers Rob
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Yes yes...the little darlings.
Seems rather promising now.
Fitted electric focuser ...only took most of the day. But the cardboard and resin trick saw a nice plastic part formed from cardboard so all the measurements were sortted in cardboard which was resined up...and strong.
Just glued the bracket on as did not want to drill holes with mirror in place.
Added additional rings now has four..Still needs to have tube reinforced as the seam does not seem so good...needs something but I will get around to that later. Needs an internal reinforcement..a ply cylinder reinforced with resin will do it...but need to remove all optics to do that sort of job... may do it if I fit baffles...which seem to be restricted to half inch.
Have not had time to set up auto guide.
But getting good focus.. the new mask makes it easy..balance seems ok.. happy with Nikon...got crap from one end of the house to the other...and no one to say "clean it up" except me.
Cant get 11 minutes unguided yet but close I feel.
The eight inch seems ok coma not too bad with corrector.
Probably good to have problems that takes my mind off such a small window.. I was going to get Satern thru 5 degrees hole in trees...its a challenge.
Alex