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Old 26-10-2014, 12:03 PM
N1 (Mirko)
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Hi Stefan, I don't own a PST, only a Halpha Solarmax filter set, so this is a wild guess. But I did have a similar experience and it's from the same producer. When I first got the filter set and gave it first light, I thought it was broken until I discovered that I was looking at a ghost image, which was featureless, blurry and impossible to focus. In the Solarmax, the ghosts are many degrees from the actual image, so are not in the same FOV. I know this sounds stupid, but when I made sure the telescope pointed at the Sun, and not just somewhere near it, the problem was solved.
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