#Diffraction spikes plus#
O’Reilly members experience live online training, plus books, videos, and digital content from nearly 200 publishers. Get Astronomy Hacks now with the O’Reilly learning platform. They have a secondary mirror in the light path. The big Newtonian reflectors and SCTs provide a lot of aperture, but they are obstructed scopes. In a previous publication by Frank concerning the interpretation of x-ray diffraction spikes in diamond as due to platelet precipitates, an error. So why would anyone pay so much for such a small scope? In a word, image quality. Even a small apochromatic refractor can easily cost $2,000 or more without a mount. And those refractors, small as they are, aren’t cheap. But mixed in with these mid-size and large scopes, you’ll see a fair number of people using 3” to 5” premium apochromatic refractors, such as those made by Tele Vue, Takahashi, and TMB. This spike isn’t present with refractors as it doesn’t have a secondary mirror. A diffraction spike is caused by how light bends or diffracts around an object or in this case the support beams in your secondary mirror in reflecting telescopes. There’ll also be a lot of people using 8”, 10”, and 12” SCTs. A diffraction spike is the light you see extend from a star in your astro-images. There’ll be a lot of people using Dobs up to 20” or larger. They provide a lot of decent-quality aperture for not much money.īut if you attend a large star party, you’ll see something puzzling. That’s the reason Newtonian reflectors, particularly Dobsonians, are so popular. Assuming the larger scope has at least decent optics, you can simply see more with a larger scope than with a smaller one, period.
A larger aperture gathers more light and provides higher resolution of fine detail. There’s an old saying among astronomers: Aperture Rules. But a simple, cheap hack can let your inexpensive Dob provide most of the benefits of an expensive apo refractor. Eliminate Diffraction Spikes and Increase Contrastīuild a $0 aperture mask to turn your $500 Dob into a $2,000 apo refractor.
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