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Nice going Carlton. But one thing is puzzling me - why is your FOV so small. It should be much bigger. You should be getting in a larger chunk of M42 with these reducers, especially the x0.33.
Do you have the reducer directly attached to the camera? You might need more spacing between the camera and reducer to get the focal reduction up to the advertised amount. From memory the 0.63 needs quite a lot - about 100-110mm, the 0.33 needs less. You can look it up for your specific reducers.
When I used these reducers on an SCT I had the reducer attached to the visual back, then an SCT-T adaptor, then a variety of T-spacers to connect to the ASI224MC (which has a T-thread). A bunch of different T-spacers came with my Meade reducer. You can just test it in the backyard against no reducer to check out what reduction you get, and then try astrometry.net to figure out your actual FOV.
Not sure why its black and white is it something to do with DSS settings? Wish I had some clear skies right now - plus there would be the bonus that I'd bug people less with my stupid comments on their threads
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