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Unboxing
The parcel was dropped off by DHL this morning and of course I had to rush off to work so no time to play until this evening.
No signs of damage on the box, so tick. Lots of packaging peanuts. The kittens had a field day.
The scope was supplied in a flight case and the contents were well secured.
Other inclusions were a starlight focuser, dedicated RC Flattener, riser for a finder and the adapter to the MMOAG, along with a selection of spacers to fine tune. Along with this, a set of dew covers and mirror covers as well as adapters for the installed secondary heater.
I checked everything on the bench including specified distances between mirrors (as per spec) focuser for tilt (none)then checked Collimation. No adjustments were needed (so far but expecting to tweak in a star test).
It’s now on the mount in the obsy, happily balanced, and will finish the cabling tomorrow, maybe even get a first light?
Accordingly to the interferometry report Strehl seems very good at 0.979 as does RMS so happy little camper. Looking forward to getting some imaging happening.
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