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Old 23-11-2013, 12:20 PM
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Hi Bert

at f25 the FWHM of the Airy pattern is 14microns - this sort of focal number is used with 5.6 micron pixels for planetary imaging

at f19 the FWHM is 10.7 microns, used with 3.75 micron pixels

basically, planetary imaging uses ~Nyquist sampling on the optics PSF, not the atmospheric PSF as used for DSO - that is the main difference.

Regards Ray

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