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Old 05-05-2008, 09:45 AM
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g__day (Matthew)
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Tuning your optics - using a DSLR

An Idea occurred to me last night whilst I was tuning my SCTs collimination. Simply de-focus the star (I used Antares) take a shoy and measure on the screen how far the central black circle was off and adjust it until it is perfect.

So I am taking shots (see below) until with the image about 200 mm across and measuring the centre to within 0.5mm - anyone else tried this or have comments? It seemed to go quite well (to inexperienced me)!

Matt
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