Test shot, NGC2835. What's wrong with my stars?

[furgle (Adam)]

My wife thought I was joking at first when I asked where the beans were.

I thought it was collimated until took the camera off and put the beans on. You can see the difference in this photo. Prior to this, it was collimated just with the laser, no on axis guider, camera weight, etc.

[alpal]

Originally Posted by furgle

Doh. I was hoping it was just my phone that didn't want to show the photos.

Hi Adam,
What a pity,
those photos would have been good to compare your mechanical setup
to see what was really happening.
We live and learn - don't ever use photobucket.

I believe that more expensive RC designs don't put any stress from the focuser
or camera on to the primary mirror.

I am surprised at the marvelous pictures from Paul Haese with his RC12
which is without any serious mechanical modifications,
but then again GSO may have made changes to their design over the years.
From the article I linked in this thread that guy called Doug, was having considerable trouble
but was smart enough to get it all going nicely with some mods.

cheers
Allan