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Old 13-07-2020, 01:09 PM
wayne anderson (Wayne)
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f6.3 reducer, it really pays to do the maths

A thorough search of many forums on the net shows Meade f6.3 reducer spacings to be anywhere between 85mm to 105mm, i was using 105mm thinking that was OK as it was the most common spacing suggested, so which spacing is right for my setup.

I decided to use the bintel astronomy calculator to find the correct arcsec/pixel using a 12inch Meade LX200 with f6.3 reducer and a ZWO ASI070MC pro at bin2x2.

https://www.bintel.com.au/tools/astronomy-calculator

The result was 1.03 arcsec/pixel for
1920.24 f6.3 at bin2x2

Now all that was needed was to image at various f6.3 reducer Spacings to find which spacing produced 1.03 arcsec/pixel by uploading the image for plate solving.

https://nova.astrometry.net/upload

Results:
105mm = 1.18 arcsec/pixel
100mm = 1.14 arcsec/pixel
90mm = 1.07 arcsec/pixel
85mm = 1.03 arcsec/pixel

The 85mm spacing produced 1.03 arcsec/pixel, this should be the optimal setting, i will image using this spacing in the future and see if it improves my images.
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