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Old 16-08-2014, 09:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Rac View Post
I agree that you won't be able to see much if anything between say a GSO mirror and a Royce mirror with a ccd but it's the mounting system that makes it so good.
What does make a big difference is the corrector used. I found the the Mk 3 MPCC very frustrating with my scope(Royce 10" f4). I changed to a type 2 Paracorr and it was instant goodness. It does slow the scope down to f4.6 but that a very good trade off for how well it performs.

That's interesting.

I wonder what my Baader RCC coma corrector is doing then?

see here:
http://www.teleskop-express.de/shop/...-distance.html

ASA has more expensive ones here:

http://www.astrosysteme.at/eng/correctors_newton.html

I wondered if they would really be better or noticeable?

If I have good seeing in Melbourne I get say 2 arc seconds at the center
of the FOV & about 2.8 at the edge of the FOV with a KAF8300 chip.
I wonder if that's all I'll ever get?
If I went to high altitude to grab 1 arc second seeing then I suppose I could really test it.

cheers
Allan
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