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Old 08-01-2007, 10:52 AM
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The "flattener" part of it apparently counteracts for curvature of the mirror reducing the "comet" shape of stars towards the edge of the field.

From memory the meade/celestron (same animal) are optimised so that the last glass element is 105mm from the imaging plane (ie surface of the ccd chip/film)
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