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With two more days here to stay at my observatory and almost all of the work done I have nothing else to do than do check runs at near full moon.
I replaced the reducer that was one of the preproduction units with a new one that performs beautifully.
This time I did a full collimation with Skywave, Coma and Field Astigmatism.
It turned out pretty well and the system shows a seeing limited Strehl of 91 through all its components at a 1" seeing, I didn´t check spherical abberation as it does not work well with secondary focusers as you change the distance between the mirrors by defocusing the needed value for SKW.
So all in all I´m pretty happy and will try not to touch anything before I go home on Thursday.
I also installed a new Alcor Alphea Allsky cam as the one that I used before on my status page was on another observatory here.
If someone wants to have a look, here is the status site of my observatory:
http://www.astro-pics.com/observatory-status.htmlAt the moment it looks like imaging in pure daylight.
The image is the central part of the Running Chicken in SHO without RGB stars, I just mapped the stars a bit differently to get rid of the magenta hue, so in the case of the stars, Ha is red, SII is yellow and OIII is blue.
Hope you like it.
Wolfgang
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