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Old 09-02-2008, 02:51 PM
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Those images, are they taken afocally or at prime focus?
Because, collimation seems to me OK or close, the stars are reasonably close to dots in the centre of the image (perhaps tracking and/or alignment was not ideal).
If the image is taken through eyepiece (indicative of this is chromatic aberration on planets.. also I think I can see the round FOV on Orion, see attached image, I increased contrast and luminance to make it more visible), you should not blame the mirror (yet). Some time ago I bought a cheap plossl on ebay (Meade 20mm) and it was absolute #$@#, (especially at the edges) so I had it returned.
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