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documenting failures, Matt Fulghum
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My images have improved in many ways over the last year, as I've learned more about my equipment and software. And then I decide, "hey, you know, my go-tos have been pretty good tonight, I'm just going to punch in this last target and go to bed." This, this is why we plate solve before leaving the scope. Like everything else, this represents the end result of a chain of bad decisions, reversing any one of which would have corrected (or at least mitigated) the problem.

I do at least seem to have the back focus on my Nikon lens adapter set properly (lessened linear CA) and the Bahtinov mask did its job well for focusing.

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documenting failures, Matt Fulghum