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Old 25-11-2021, 05:10 PM
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First setup on 10" f4 Newt

Set it up on the Obs Newt out of the rain, a very simple two minute job just like mounting a normal camera in the focusser tube with a USB2 connection to the NUC.

Pix show setup, before and after shots. Adjustment took all of five minutes max, as the scope was pretty well in collimation according to the first pic. I used the green circle to fit the mirror reflection, blue as a focus tube circle and yellow as the OCAL image within the focus tube. You can see the silver and red bits on the outside of the tube, which are actually the internal bits of the Moonlight due to the wide angle of the OCAL lens. The second set of pics show the OCAL rotated 90 degrees in the tube just to see if there was any change. There wasn't.

The white square is the OCAL lens and the black primary mirror donut is almost on top of it. I then adjusted the secondary screws to superimpose the donut on the lens, which then required slight readjustment of the green circle offset settings to again overlay the primary mirror edge. While it is only about 99% perfect overlay, good enough for a first attempt until a star test can be done. But all the bits seem to align well, for very little effort or frustration. Also very convenient to be able to see things on a big computer monitor while adjusting.

Very happy so far.
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