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Meng Lee
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Hehe, so lesson of the day for me: choose alignment stars near the object to align when the image has distortions.

On a website, I saw people testing Megrez 72 with WO reducer and Televue 0.8x reducer, it turns out that the televue reducer does the job better. Seems like i got to spend money again.
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which website? have you thought about the AP telecompressor from Astrophysics? It is quite cheap too relative to AP terms about 70% of the price of the 0.8 from Televue and it falls within the suggested focal ratio range.
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Nice shots
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Remus: This website

http://www.pbase.com/jvtleven/image/90871187

You mean this telecompressor?

http://www.buytelescopes.com/product.as ... splay=info

my scope is f6.9 so should be ok. Hmmm, I think its time that I do some research on the reducers that work with the scope. I think the WO 80FD is a pretty good scope. Too bad TMB didnt make a specific matching flattener/reducer for it.

Clliford: Hey your wide field shots are very nice also. Do post them.
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The last pic I have is the Lagoon through the clear filter:

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Post by Tachyon »

Nice pics, Meng Lee!
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Wow nice!
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Why does the lagoon kinda look like rosette?
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Yes the Lagoon looks nice! Very 3D like .....
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Hey thanks to all your compliments.

This time starshoot autoguider works very well. SS2k simply brings the object into the ccd view. Atik never condense water. WO focuser is tightened a lot such that it never slips. ST80 focuser is tightened very much also! Sigh the only bad thing is the worng reducer spacing and insect bites on me. [smilie=bye2.gif]
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