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Thanks Michael and Paul for the encouragements.
As I alluded to before, this type of instrument would need to be at least one extra inch larger in aperture to be commercially viable.
However my next project will be very much in that category, but it will not be a Honders.
Last night I plugged in my QHY8 for the first time and I can report that the stars were sharp corner to corner. The polar alignment was not good and exposures longer than a few seconds were trailing so I don't have images to prove it. Also realised that I need to print a Bahtinov mask for it because it is very difficult to judge best focus with the tiny under sampled stars.
Paul,
Yes I will take it to VicSouth if the weather cooperates. I always make a last minute decision on attending, based on the weather forecast.
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