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Old 04-02-2013, 09:17 AM
Barrykgerdes
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Simple/cheap fast scopes have a problem with spherical aberation because the mirrors are not accurately parabolic. This can be improved with correction lenses in the eyepiece but the corrector still needs to be matched to the mirror.

SCT's are basically very fast and have corrector plates to correct this.

Barry
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