Reducer Test 1 - almost the whole Veil in SHO (Uwe Deutermann)

Reducer Test 1 - almost the whole Veil in SHO

There are not many clear night in the middle of the summer in Florida, could not believe my eyes when I saw stars in the sky, at the end of July! Knowing that it would not last for many nights (in total 2 as it turned out) I needed to pick an easy target, and a target for the Reducer that I decided to give it a last chance. I setup the back focus the best I could, I believe it was close to perfect, but the tilt that came with the 6200 was still present, could not get all corners into perfect shape. I do not see this problem with the flattener, hence I am a bit puzzled, is maybe the reducer tilted? After this (and next) test I am pretty confident that I will leave the reducer in its package from now on and stick with the flattener, pretty expensive weight that I collected here. A shame since the field is with the 6200 awesome!
I picked for the trial (again!) the Veil since it was for me the best testing target with many stars across the field. This should be it for the Veil this year though ... at the end of the processing it became almost boring 🤪.
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