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I was carefully collimating a new Celestron 9.25 with a
celestron .63 reducer last night and I noticed something odd. I was using robofocus to move inside or outside focus the same amount (perhaps 10 wavelengths). When I collimated inside to be concentric rings then went outside it was perhaps 10-15% off. When I collimated outside and went inside it was 10-15% off. I ended up collimating in the middle to balance the two figuring whatever effect it was would cancel at focus. I used focus max to focus and the resulting stars were about 2.6 arcseconds FWHM in a .06 second exposure using the focus function in maxim. The stars seemed symmetric. My question is, what optical configuration problem leads to the optimal collimation being different inside and outside. I could not find anything in Harold Suiter's book to explain it, and I don't think my secondary is 10-15% off in the center of the corrector ![]() Thanks Web |
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