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Old 24-01-2014, 03:36 PM
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Interesting thread. I usually experience between 2" and 3". I have seen below 2" on occasion, but it's rare. If it's over 3" I switch to taking colour, binned 2x2. I rarely see it higher than 3.5-4" though (only on a few nights per year).
Hi Rolf,

I'm a bit curious about this. what software did you use for the above measurements?
I'm struggling with constant above 4 FWHM as reported by Maxim, ccdstack and ccdinspector but I thought it could be my guiding/mount performance/scope rigidity all of which could smear the stars over a few pixels increasing the overall fwhm. I use an OAG with the lodestar and guiding is pretty flat.
I constantly get blurred images, with my F4 I get pretty good details, but compared to others, its blurred.
I even tried with a refractor, but ended up with 3.9.
would this mean that this is basically due to poor seeing?
if it is, then I'm moving to the hills.

Cheers
Alistair
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