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Old 04-03-2009, 02:06 PM
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field flattener required?

I'm noticing the stars in corners of my images being distorted. See here: http://piggo.com/~troy/photos/2009/2009_02_28/m42.jpg or http://piggo.com/~troy/photos/2009/2009_02_28/m83.jpg

I understand this is due to the optics of my scope, ED80 Pro. A focal reducer or field flattener (same thing?) will stop this? But this will change the field of view? How much? I see there are .6x etc. Is that directly proportional to the size of field of view?

Is there another way to prevent this distortion, other than post-processing?

Sorry for all the questions.
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