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Old 20-03-2017, 07:33 PM
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Originally Posted by pmrid View Post
Wouldn't it be nice if you could take the whole imaging train off the back of the scope and house it beside your PC/Laptop - connecting the scope to CCD by fibre optics. They do amazing things with multi-channel spectroscopy using fibre-optics. It seems plausible to consider taking it a step further to CCD imaging. How crazy is that?
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that might be a bit hard - you would need a fibre for each pixel and 16million fibres is a long way from the thousand or so that are currently used for big spectroscopy - I think that we are stuck with conventional image trains for a while..

But you could take everything off the scope and put it on the mount at a Naysmith focal plane maybe? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasmyth_telescope

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