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20 years 1 month ago #5175 by michaeloconnell
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Oh, and if it wasn't for me, Mike, you wouldn't be vice chairperson


Oh, don't you worry, I won't let you forget that, not by a long shot! In fact, I know EXACTLY who is to blame for all this! :wink:

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20 years 1 month ago #5176 by Seanie_Morris
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Oh, don't you worry, I won't let you forget that, not by a long shot! In fact, I know EXACTLY who is to blame for all this! :wink:


Who?

*innocence divine here*


:P

Midlands Astronomy Club.
Radio Presenter (Midlands 103), Space Enthusiast, Astronomy Outreach Co-ordinator.
Former IFAS Chairperson and Secretary.

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20 years 1 month ago #5178 by dave_lillis
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Seanie,
You need to watch him, he'll be after your job soon... :lol:

Dave L. on facebook , See my images in flickr
Chairman. Shannonside Astronomy Club (Limerick)

Carrying around my 20" obsession is going to kill me,
but what a way to go. :)
+ 12"LX200, MK67, Meade2045, 4"refractor

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20 years 1 month ago #5180 by michaeloconnell
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No no, it's ok, I enjoy seeing Seanie doing all the work!
As vice-chair, I prefer to "delegate".
:)

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20 years 1 month ago #5184 by dave_lillis
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Michael,
Getting back to planetery images, I was reading Suiters book on astro scope testing, and came across the

"red edge on one side of the planet and blue edge on the other side of the planet"

phenomena some of us webcamed last year when imaging the planets.

Bad news, it says that this is due to a decentering (sideways shift) of the optical compenents in the scope !!

He was talking about refractors but I'd bet that this translates into SCT scopes also , when you consider mirror flop/image shift etc, you can imaging how.

I noticed that after I recentered the secondary mirror relative to the tube using a vernier calipers, it was not nearly as bad as before, at the time I did this for collimation reasons.

Dave L. on facebook , See my images in flickr
Chairman. Shannonside Astronomy Club (Limerick)

Carrying around my 20" obsession is going to kill me,
but what a way to go. :)
+ 12"LX200, MK67, Meade2045, 4"refractor

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20 years 1 month ago #5185 by michaeloconnell
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Interesting.
Registax can compensate for it to a certain extent. However, it's obviously best to eliminate it from the optical system where possible.

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