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Hello I'm new to this forum, greetings from rainy Luxembourg.
I see this subject has been well covered already but I have a specific situation I need help with. I have a f/3.67 20" (508mm) Newtonian,coupled with a TS-Optics Coma Corrector 0.73x Reducer, and an Apogee U4000 CCD (chip size 15.2mm x 15.2mm). I understand I need an over sized secondary to take full advantage of this f/2.7 super fast setup, but exactly what size secondary should I order? This setup has disadvantages that I cannot change like unforgiving collimation and focus (and some coma), but this is the one thing I can change for optimum performance. Can anyone tell me how to calculate this or, better still, calculate it for me?
Cheers,
Matt Dawson, Luxembourg
8 Position Filter Wheel
in Getting Started With Imaging
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Just to mention (though it only applies to thinned CCD chips), I always use an IR blocking filter to get rid of those pesky diffraction patterns on my images caused by atmospheric moisture.