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Update.
I was greeted with a letter saying that my scope was at the post office this morning, it seems I had missed the delivery. I rushed off to the post office and picked it up. I had a long day ahead of me because the tube I had made had alot of work to get it ready for mirrors. Here are various photos of the progress made.
I am very impressed with the secondary and primary cell / holder/ spider. They are a major improvement from the GSO. The focuser I am yet to pass judgement on, it seems OK but I may end up replacing it with the moonlite from my GSO.
After drilling all the holes, and flocking the tube with protostar flocking paper I did a quick collimation with my cats eye tools. It was perfect! previous to this I had never been able to achieve the perfect circles in the offset pupil and single reflection in the central pupil at the same time.
For those who want to know the new scope should produce a 28mm 100% illuminated field (previous scope had 0mm 100% due to backfocus hungry OAG)
Now to wait for a clear night to see how she performs under starlight.
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