Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  Crescent Nebula  ·  NGC 6881  ·  NGC 6888  ·  PK074+02.1  ·  Sh2-105
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C27 Crescent Nebula-Ha-testing new spacers, Adel Kildeev
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C27 Crescent Nebula-Ha-testing new spacers

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C27 Crescent Nebula-Ha-testing new spacers, Adel Kildeev
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C27 Crescent Nebula-Ha-testing new spacers

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I was listening the Devil's whispering to continue to increase back-focus to reduce curvature, so I made a radical change: instead adding thin spacers (it helped a bit) I added 10 mm extra length of back-focus, in total 66 mm.  I expected horrible distorted stars but suprisely the image was fine. 

The Orion flattener's manual states 55 mm required back-focus. But reading small print to found out interesting note: 
“X”mm of additional spacing may be required to achieve 55mm, depending on make and model of camera." What does it mean? I have no idea.

I think that with 66 mm back-focus the image is pretty flat, all stars are round and sharp. Pixel scale has changed from 1.622 to 1.616 arcsec/pixel and focuser 's settings accordingly.

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