A bit of progress : after a second light that really impressed me, I'm making it usable as a tabletop dob before mounting it on the 16.5".
Posted 10 September 2024 - 04:51 PM
Great scope ! and nice red carpet for the mirror!
Posted 11 September 2024 - 09:12 AM
Great scope ! and nice red carpet for the mirror!
Thanks ! It's supposedly loaded with silver particles to react with eventual oxydants before the silver coating does, sold as "anti-tarnish cloth".
Posted 19 September 2024 - 02:47 AM
It now has a base so I have been able to test it without shaking :
Correction at the edge is better than my hyperbolic + mpcc newt, chromatism is also way better. I'm impressed by the performance of the GSO corrector.
Maybe it wouldn't make it for imaging though, but I have no practical knowledge of that..
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