Flocking Dobbie

[weareborg]

Well I finally managed to start flocking my SW 200 Dobbie. Below are pics of my progress so far. As you can see the tube isn't very black at all. In fact its more grey than black. The velour is a lovely deep black even though in the first few pics you can't really tell because of the flash from the camera. The last couple of pics were taken with the flash off and you can certainly tell the difference now. 

Only had time to do the top half of the tube so far but will do the rest at the weekend whilst I'm off work. Hopefully the weather will get better too but I'm not holding my breath. 

[cjdawson]

That last picture shows the improvement, looks like a really dramatic change

[laudropb]

Flocked mine a year ago. It really does make a difference to the contrast in images, as I am sure you will soon find.

[Peter Drew]

Do try flocking an external portion next to the focuser in front of the eye you don't use. 

[Astro Imp]

That looks to be a dramatic improvement.

[weareborg]

Thanks guys.

Yeah I wasn't expecting such a big improvement. Really impressed with it. Just need to finish it off tomorrow

Andy