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Dental Floss Test on Orion Nebula, Chuck's Astrophotography
Dental Floss Test on Orion Nebula
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Dental Floss Test on Orion Nebula

Dental Floss Test on Orion Nebula, Chuck's Astrophotography
Dental Floss Test on Orion Nebula
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Dental Floss Test on Orion Nebula

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I always liked diffraction spikes that are produced by the support vanes of the secondary mirror in Newtonian telescopes. So I created my own by taping some dental floss in the form of crosshairs on my wide field refractor. I think they turned out well. I only got in 1 hour of imaging last night and even that was through a thick haze.

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Description: Reduced the brightness of the core.

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Dental Floss Test on Orion Nebula, Chuck's Astrophotography