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Originally Posted by Peter.M
I have the same scope and I use the Baader MPCC, one thing I can tell you about the stars is you need VERY good collimation. With my tools I am able to achieve perfect collimation, and even then if the focuser bends the metal when it is under load ( when I attach my camera/filterwheel/OAG/guidecam) I still wont get perfect stars in the corners.
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Hi Peter,
Yes on top of the collimation, I make it part of the routine to do this just before imaging. It amazes me that just about every time it needs a slight tweek, I think this may be due to temerature change in the observatory, it gets quite hot during the day as the observatory is made of steel.
Iv'e got collimation down about 5 minutes, took a lot longer when I first got the scope.
Cheers,
Justin.