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- From: dsmith@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com (David R. Smith)
- Subject: Re: My SC corrector plate is dirty. Help!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.183519.2943@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 18:35:19 GMT
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- References: <Dec20.185657.79971@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Palo Alto,CA
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- In article <Dec20.185657.79971@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> miker@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU (Mike Riley) writes:
- >... There appears
- >to be a misty coating on both the inside and outside of the corrector plate.
- >
- >I'm tempted to remove the corrector plate to carefully clean it (I've cleaned
- >enough Nikon lenses to know I can ruin the coating!), but I'm put off by
- >the manual's warning of alignment problems. Has anybody else experienced
- >this problem, and have you cleaned/would you recommend cleaning the
- >corrector plate?
-
- According to a Celestron bulletin, the optics are rotationally matched, so
- that if you take off the corrector (with secondary), you must mark its
- edge and the tube so you get the rotation correct when you reassemble.
- Carefully document any shim spacers between the plate and the tube, so that
- you can put them back in exactly as they were to get the tilt right.
-
-
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- David R. Smith, HP Labs | "I like to get my hands dirty,
- dsmith@hpl.hp.com | because it stimulates my mind."
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