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Old 17-02-2012, 03:41 PM
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Peter Ward
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Originally Posted by Garyh View Post
What a wonderful new toy Peter. I drooled over your other post when you got your hands on it
Stars look great to the edge!
You have to drag that to a dark sky site!
Thanks. Indeed, the stars are remarkably tight across to the edge of the sensor...

As I mentioned you can see slight evidence of (camera tilt) at full-res, but that's easily fixed so I'm very happy with the results so far... but don't see myself hauling it to a dark site just yet

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Originally Posted by atalas View Post
Great things to come....congrats on the new scope!
Thanks... Hopefully I'll be able to do it justice over the next few months.

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Originally Posted by Octane View Post
Wow. Can't wait to see what this baby can do in full colour!

Marc, at f/3.8, the CFZ on this puppy is just 31.8 microns. The FSQ-106N is 55 microns. So, very, very finicky!

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Ta H ..saved me looking up the formula. I'm thinking narrow band results should be splendid
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