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Old 25-06-2019, 10:38 AM
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Something else that Roland brought up a few years ago that surprised me was that seeing and optical errors are additive. I’d always imaged that as long as optical quality was below 3x seeing that it would be swamped by seeing error but if take it as additive then optical quality helps reduce seeing error to some degree.

For most people a Celestron Edge14 doesn’t need to have better optical performance than 15-20 microns on-axis for local seeing but apparently if that’s dropped down to 5 microns on-axis, even though WELL below seeing for most of us, helps cut through the seeing to some degree.
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