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Old 10-05-2007, 10:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Omaroo View Post
Is there any way that you could move the CCD up further into the tube? I can't quite see, by your image, whether you could or not. I presume that you didn't liberate the CCD array from the circuit board, which you probably can't squeeze into the tube. By going up the tube further you could eliminate your back-focus problem to a degree.

You can remove the array from these boards and re-connect them via ribbon cable and judicious soldering. I'm doing that in order to cool my own ToUcam soon.

Cheers
Chris
No I can't. The ccd is soldered onto the circuit board, which is entirely too big to fit. I tried it tonight on Jupiter, no go - it won't focus. Is there any optical means I can fix this, maybe eyepiece projection?

Cheers,
Steve
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