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Old 10-03-2010, 06:30 PM
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Calculating Full illumination circle

Im trying to work out the full illumination circle of my Skywatcher 10" dobsonian to find the culprit of the vingetting (bigger secondary, bigger focuser, more efficient apperature to camera/focuser interface).

Im using Newt which is a raytrace program and tonight im going to use vernier callipers to get all the correct distances to give the exact ray trace.

Does anybody know a formula/method for calculating the illumination circle?

Your help will be apprciated.

Brendan
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