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Flare artifact
From: Jim Thompson
Date: 2005 Jul 6, 06:35 -0300
From: Jim Thompson
Date: 2005 Jul 6, 06:35 -0300
My sextant has developed an annoying flare artifact. It appeared the other day when I was doing sun sextant shots on a very bright summer forenoon. I was using a split mirror and the 6x telescope (Astra IIIb) The flare appeared around the right half of the sun when the sun's image was in the left side of the field of view, but vanished leaving a clean image of the sun if I moved the sextant so the image was over the black half of the field of view on the right. I cleaned all the shades, the horizon glass, and both external surfaces of the telescope's lenses (ie front and back), but no imrovement. Any suggestions? Sounds to me like I might have a problem inside the telescope. Jim Thompson jim3 at jimthompson dot net www.jimthompson.net -------------------- Outgoing email scanned by Norton Antivirus