skywatcher 72ED Dedicated Field Flatener

[Stu1smartcookie]

I am a proud owner of the lovely Skywatcher 72ED ... a fine scope . I purchased the dedicated field flatener and i tried to use it for the first time last night . The trouble is , even with the supplied adapter and the correct T Ring for my Canon camera i still cannot achieve prime focus . Having spoken to the supplier this morning they have informed me that some of the FF were faulty ! I am a bit surprised to say the least , and they have said they can rectify the problem ... the thing is , i was so close to focus . Has anyone else had an issue with the dedicated FF for this scope ?

[Stu1smartcookie]

As a follow up to the above , i have returned my FF ... There was , apparently , some assembly problems with the current batch !!

 

[happy-kat]

I hope any replacement you get works out fine

[Stu1smartcookie]

thanks ... im actually going down the route of the OVL flattener , its not a reducer but so many people have commented on how good it is . Its a shame about the dedicated one though ... im sure most wont have the problem i had . 

[Chefgage]

22 hours ago, Stu1smartcookie said:

thanks ... im actually going down the route of the OVL flattener , its not a reducer but so many people have commented on how good it is . Its a shame about the dedicated one though ... im sure most wont have the problem i had . 

I went down the OVL route instead of the dedicated one. It has taken more than three months to be delivered though so it best work!!

Not tried it yet, still waiting for a break in the clouds.

[Stu1smartcookie]

Think its back in stock at FLO ... so i had better put my order in ! .. I saw a couple of You Tube videos where people were impressed with it ... and its £100 cheaper than the dedicated one !

 

[Chefgage]

17 hours ago, Stu1smartcookie said:

Think its back in stock at FLO ... so i had better put my order in ! .. I saw a couple of You Tube videos where people were impressed with it ... and its £100 cheaper than the dedicated one !

 

The clouds look favourable for tonight so I will get out and test it. Need to get sorted as I am shortly going camping to a bortle 4 sky area. My area is about a 8/9

[Stu1smartcookie]

1 hour ago, Chefgage said:

The clouds look favourable for tonight so I will get out and test it. Need to get sorted as I am shortly going camping to a bortle 4 sky area. My area is about a 8/9

Hope you were able to use the scope last night ... once again i was clouded out zzz . 

[Chefgage]

2 hours ago, Stu1smartcookie said:

Hope you were able to use the scope last night ... once again i was clouded out zzz . 

The post I made was for tonight, so fingers crossed.

[fozzybear]

On ‎23‎/‎07‎/‎2020 at 13:34, Chefgage said:

The post I made was for tonight, so fingers crossed.

how did you get on?

[Chefgage]

16 hours ago, fozzybear said:

how did you get on?

Lots of cloud, so not good.

[Stu1smartcookie]

The weather has been awful lately  .. there is a possibility of clearer skies later in  the week .

[Nerf_Caching]

Good idea to get a field flattener. The field curvature is quite bad on some of the photos taken with my 72ED.

Edited July 27, 2020 by Nerf_Caching

[Adam1234]

I've not got the 72ed, I have the 80ed, but had exactly the same problem with the dedicated ff for my my scope.  Stars looked worse than without the reducer and it took me a couple nights and advice from here to figure out that something wasn't right. Contacted FLO and they sent a replacement with now works fine. 

 

[Chefgage]

On 26/07/2020 at 18:14, fozzybear said:

how did you get on?

Managed to try it last night. Perfect focus now using the OVL Flattener.