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Old 11-08-2009, 04:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Peter Ward View Post
A bright star, just off axis, may still throw some scattered light onto the focal plane. Sorry, that's the way most telescopes work.
Hello Peter. Granted, but surely the pattern exhibited in the images attached to my initial post are well beyond anything that ought to be considered 'normal', 'acceptable', 'within tolerances'. Would you consider a scope you had bought to be accetable if it displayed those features?
Peter
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