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Re: dob tube length vis a vis CMOS imagers
Mike, I should have said, the focal length of the primary mirror stays the same. Adding a focal reducer changes the effective f/ratio of the system. My 17.5¡± ServoCAT equipped TeleKIT is f/4.8. With
By Jack Huerkamp · #6897 ·
Re: dob tube length vis a vis CMOS imagers
Mike, When a focal reducer is used with a camera or an eyepiece, the effect is moving the focal plane inward toward the secondary. All shortening the truss poles does is push the focal plane further
By Jack Huerkamp · #6896 ·
Re: dob tube length vis a vis CMOS imagers
Gary, Night before last Blackeye galaxy with 100 seconds (10 stacks of 10 second exposure) from my UC18 and DS10cTEC.? Just a little post processing to add the text and remove my background gradient.
By Richard · #6895 ·
Re: dob tube length vis a vis CMOS imagers
Gary, My black and white "EAA" images with "almost" no post processing.
By Richard · #6894 ·
Re: dob tube length vis a vis CMOS imagers
Mike, The backfocus of the camera requires you to have some extra focus travel to bring the camera sensor to the focal plane.? My UC18 telescope has plenty of focus travel and have range to spare
By Richard · #6893 ·
Re: dob tube length vis a vis CMOS imagers
Gary, When Dave K. recommended Mallincam cameras for his Obsession customers I took the bait. The Mallincam DS series of cameras only have a backfocus of 17.5mm.? This means no modification was
By Richard · #6892 ·
Re: dob tube length vis a vis CMOS imagers
Gary, Can you shorten the tube length? The purpose of the truss system is to hold the secondary mirror at the correct focal length away from the primary mirror. Seems to me if the focal length is
By Michael Dreis <mwdreis1@...> · #6891 ·
Re: dob tube length vis a vis CMOS imagers
Hi Gary, again lol. Now that I read you have an F5 mirror you may not need to shorten your truss tube unless as Jack said you use a focal reducer. My scope is an F3.3 so It was built with an
By Mickey Huffman · #6890 ·
Re: dob tube length vis a vis CMOS imagers
Gary
By Mickey Huffman · #6889 ·
Re: dob tube length vis a vis CMOS imagers
Hi Gary. I own a Meade LightBridge 12" F5 (as you probably recall), mostly for visual, but recently trying to turn it into an EAA platform - that's why I was asking about the ASIAir. I had no
By rcalcagno@... · #6888 ·
Re: dob tube length vis a vis CMOS imagers
Gary, When I first started using MallinCam cameras on my 17.5¡± TeleKit, I had to shorten the truss poles 1¡± to allow the scope to focus when using a focal reducer on the camera. Without the focal
By Jack Huerkamp · #6887 ·
Re: dob tube length vis a vis CMOS imagers
Hi Gary, If I remember correctly I did not need to shorten my truss poles initially when I was using my camera only (asi294MCPro) and cona corrector. It was only after I wanted to try using a nexus
By Mike · #6886 ·
dob tube length vis a vis CMOS imagers
Hello all... so - there are a few guys on here that have done imaging using their Obsession or similar dob. I'm curious what I should expect to have to do with the truss tube length. I have heard,
By K9RX - Gary · #6885 ·
Re: HELP! MY MESSAGE HAS BEEN LOCKED!!
Steve, My apologies - I should have announced it. I did it. It was indeed just that discussions of ASIAir are for the moment premature. There's a lot of effort that would have to happen before it's
By K9RX - Gary · #6884 ·
Re: HELP! MY MESSAGE HAS BEEN LOCKED!!
See here for instance: /helpcenter/ownersmanual/1/managing-group-topics-and-messages/locking-topics
By rcalcagno@... · #6883 ·
Re: HELP! MY MESSAGE HAS BEEN LOCKED!!
Steve, in other forums some threads are locked to prevent further comments, once the original question was sufficiently answered [at moderator's judge) and to avoid confusions It seems this is would
By rcalcagno@... · #6882 ·
HELP! MY MESSAGE HAS BEEN LOCKED!!
Hi All. I just found out that my message has been locked. Probably something I did??? Anyway, I tried to find out how to unlock it, but to no avail. Can anyone help?? ?Please! Steve
By classicalgman · #6881 ·
Re: Tickled pink...
Sounds great. Hope you can finally get outside soon. Steve [email protected]> wrote:
By classicalgman · #6880 ·
Tickled pink...
Its been some time since I had the 12" set up... it's now sitting in our "smallish" living room... as a test for it - while waiting for a clear night. When I get up in the morning I'll find a galaxy
By K9RX - Gary · #6879 ·
Re: ServoCAT Cover
Raphael, I'm guessing - looking at the picture - it is about 2.6" in length ... which would be 66mm. Whichever is closest to the number you see for the length. g.
By K9RX - Gary · #6878 ·