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Old 24-07-2009, 11:15 AM
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Originally Posted by Dennis View Post
Hi Ric

In terms of scintillation due to seeing, I have noticed that in poor seeing, the centre bar of the original Bahtinov Mask can appear to “wander” or “oscillate” around the judged focus point. Also, when using my Pentaz XW14, as I move my eye around the field, the centre bar moves (very slightly) with it. I suspect the same phenomena would occur with the Carey variant?

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Dennis
Dennis
I observed the same effect when the seeing was bad and I was trying to capture "Bird's stike" on Jupiter. I found that it (the central bar) did wander slightly but it was easy to judge the center. I suppose its a good way to test the seeing, but without the mask I found it very difficult to judge best focus.
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