Wonderful image Mike. How do you find out about these obscure objects?
As far as the reflection goes, are there any bright shiny metal parts you can blacken with a felt pen - like edges of adapter?
Hopefully it would be that simple.
Another solution is a mask over your camera. Apogee made a mask for the U16M and it is a thin, matt black aluminium sheet that had 2 small holes in it and fitted in front of the shutter. It works well with this sort of problem.
It may possibly be reflections from bright metal bits in the CCD chamber and the mask will also help with that.
You can make one out of black cardboard from a newsagent.
Greg.
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