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Old 04-01-2011, 08:35 AM
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Originally Posted by OzRob View Post
You got me thinking with this post. I would have thought that at that size the dust would be fairly close to the CCD. I used the calculator I posted a link to to do some testing. I found that with my WO FLT110 and the QHY-9 camera for a dust donut that was as wide as the CCD sensor the dust would only be 62.861mm from the CCD. Am I not understanding something?
No you're correct. It could be on the secondary or any corrector before the CCD but it's too close to be on the nosepiece or 55mm away (like a MPCC). Your 60mm+ sounds plausible given the size of the donut. On my newt that would correspond to that distance approx.
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