Thread: Fast & slow
View Single Post
  #7  
Old 05-02-2014, 10:17 AM
Pinwheel's Avatar
Pinwheel (Doug)
Registered User

Pinwheel is offline
 
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Wimmera victoria
Posts: 512
Quote:
Originally Posted by barx1963 View Post
For a newtonian (and dobs are a form of newtonian) only coma is affected as they do not suffer from chromatic aberrations.
From my understanding Newts do suffer from-

1/ Spherical Aberration which causes a halo effect around bright objects
Eg Jupiter.

2/ Astigmatism which causes points of light to look like triangles or crosses.

3/ Coma which causes comet tails.
Reply With Quote