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Refractor Baffles

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Posted by Bob Schuler/">Bob Schuler on May 1, 1999 03:54:04 UTC

Just built a 4"F10 refractor tube assembly for under 200 dollars US,and in my haste to see Mars at opposition I assembled the scope without the baffles just a blackened tube the results were quite poor, Mars looked like a boiling cauldron due to stray light in the tube so I added a single baffel and the planets image began to stabilize and some detail could be seen so I installed a full set of baffels and now Mars resolved into a perfect disc at all mags...Bob.

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