Issue with Stars

[JohnC64]

Hi All,

I'm having a few issues with Bright stars on my imaging. If you take a look at this image of M33, you will see that the stars have a light shadow pointing towards the left.  Any Ideas If this an issue with my Columnation  or focuser alignment problems.  I thought i had both addressed but something is amiss. (Obviously flats are required to get rid of the dust bunnies)

Any advice gratefully received

Cheers John

[JohnC64]

Heres a crop of the issue that I'm seeing

John

[Jannis]

It almost look like a reflection of some kind?

[JohnC64]

Hi Jannis,

Yes it has that look about it.  To eliminate everything , I'm now waiting on getting a 2" collimation laser, as I believe that  using the 1.25 laser and the adapter that I have is giving me alignment issues.

Cheers John