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Old 15-10-2012, 09:37 AM
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I did a final? alignment and check last night of the ITS.

This time I did 60s exposures and jogged the mount by 30' seven times about seven seconds apart.

This gives a line of diffraction patterns of the same bright star that are far easier to compare.

Horizontal image 2MB

http://d1355990.i49.quadrahosting.co...2_10/A_hor.jpg


Vertical image 2MB

http://d1355990.i49.quadrahosting.co..._10/A_vert.jpg


Horizontal alignment is almost perfect ie within about 5 micron. This is less than a 9 micron pixel! In angular terms about an arc second misalignment horizontally.

Vertical needs to come up a tiny tad. The sensor is about 15 micron closer at the bottom compared to the top.

The last image is a single 8minute exposure in 3nm HA of a bit of the Vela SNR.

Full size image here 10MB

http://d1355990.i49.quadrahosting.co..._10/VelaHA.jpg

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Last edited by avandonk; 15-10-2012 at 09:58 AM.
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