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Old 02-02-2006, 08:55 AM
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I'm one of those guys that has an irrational fear of cleaning mirrors for fear of scratching them... no matter how careful I've been I always do, but them I'm not exactly a neat and clean sort of guy and my house is like a shrine to dust, so I suspect that if you are of the neat, clean and organised variety like Mike says you should have no trouble.

Having said that I'm also amazed at how little impact dust and even fine dew has on views and imaging. Some of my best planetary images have been taken with fine dew spotting up the corrector plate on my SCT and what looks like a desert of dust on my DK cassegrain mirror. What I'm getting at is it really isn't such a big deal, so see how you go as others advise. It's probably something that takes you from 97% to 99% performance.

cheers,
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