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Old 28-02-2023, 04:38 PM
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Originally Posted by PRejto View Post
Hi Rodney.

Well, obviously something is wrong with either the design of this petzval APO or this particular example. How disappointing!

A wild guess, might your Astronomik blue filter be transmitting more UV than a competitor's filter? The UV might not be within the corrected range of this APO.

As a temporary cure, try running BlurXterminator on just the blue channel. You can set it only to correct star shapes and not deconvolve.

Good luck,
Peter
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Originally Posted by kencas View Post
When toggling between the images I can also see a slight shift in the green channel. The red is perfectly circular, the green is showing some centre weighted abberation, and as you have pointed out the blue is quite elongated.
Peter, Ken, thanks for your responses. I would like to get to the bottom of this and see if I do have an issue with the OTA or not. As a first stab I will try with adjusting out the small amount of tilt that is there and see if that makes a difference.
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