cleaning and flocking

[adamsp123]

I recently cleaned my 200mm mirror a la the OWL technique as shown on another mirror cleaning thread, must say it was easy and worked very well.

Whilst I had had the mirror cell out I "flocked" the tube with camping mat material sprayed with matt black paint, I painted the mat long ago so the paint was well dry. I made sure the mat was cut so it was a tight fit thus the material wants to hug the tube wall, I fixed it top and bottom with dots of bath sealent, so far it is fine, just really don't know if it will make an improvement.

I also added another finder bracket so I can now have my finderguider and finderscope on the OTA at the same time saves faffing around changing one for the other when imaging/aligning.