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Old 22-08-2012, 08:29 PM
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Originally Posted by mental4astro View Post
I'm curious, Clive, why would you say that this design would be plagued by stray light. I can't see this design being any different to any other open tube design. Including Dan's.
Sky light surrounding the secondary folding flat can just flood the eyepiece. Its like a cassegrain without a baffle tube mounted in the primary. Completely open tube Newts without a carefully designed baffle plate in front of the focuser will suffer the same stray light problem.
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