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GSO RC 10" Repeating Donut/Set Up Issue advice


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HI all,

Wondered if anyone could help my with the following - set up new RC and managed 6x600 unguided to obtain the following image.  At first glance not too bad for first attempt - however as always there is a but with this hobby

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And now the but....if I stretch this image I can see a repeating donut which I believe is from the black circle in the scope as shown below.

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The red arrows highlight some of the areas but it repeats all over the image.

I have collimated with a tak collimating scope and it all appears to be as it should.  The only other thing I can think to mention is that I tried a 2" field flattener (astro-tech).

Does anyone have any thoughts on what could cause this?

Thanks in advance

Paddy

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May have been the cause - however new investigation required now as to why the glass had got dirty so quickly as was all thoroughly cleaned on build a few days earlier.

Looked like condensation had dried on it but never suffered that with this camera before.

Thanks for the tool though useful to know.

Paddy

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That is dust close to the sensor, probably on the glass screen in front of it. I notice you use a camera with the 8300 chip, so the camera has a shutter. Check that the dust particles stay in the same place each exposure ( stretch your individual subs). With the SX H18 I had, the coating was rubbing off the shutter and depositing dust every cycle, so it was impossible to remove the effect using flats. With a QSI camera, you probably don't have a problem but it's worth checking.

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There do seem to be an inordinately large number of doughnuts appearing in your image although that is a pretty savage stretch, of course!

Just in case you want your own local calculator on a spreadsheet, the dust-to-sensor distance can be calculated using the following:-

distance of dust from sensor = dust diameter (mm) * pixel size (microns) * focal ratio/1000

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