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Old 07-12-2016, 02:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Atmos View Post
I'd say what you're experiencing is mirror flop. Now this is fine as you're off-axis guiding is correcting for it on your main OTA but as your secondary refractor doesn't suffer from this, it will show up as drift.
Ohhhhh yes! You're probably right. The dodgy old 12" SCT bites my ass again. Grrr.

It certainly does have significant mirror flop, as you say not normally noticed.

Hmmmm, I guess if that is it, I"m either best not guiding, or ideally need to buy an OAG for the refractor.
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