Re: [APML] R200SS was: 8" Reflector decent enough for prime focus AP?

["Shekhar Borde" <shekhar@prodigy.net>]

> You can also just get an 8" filter and lay it on the mirror <g>!
> 

Yeah right!  That would be especially fun with an interference filter.  
You might have to sell your house and live under the mount but hey!
you'd atleast get those filtered photos <g>.

> 
> But it seems that there are always strange halos around the bright stars in
> photos taken with this scope - Aike has them too. Has their origin been
> discovered yet? (I remember there being a discussion about it a year or so
> ago.)
> 

The halos are due to a turned edge and can be fixed by masking off a
few mm of the edge.   Some of the R200SSs seem to have this problem.

Shekhar



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