Recently, I took for the first time LRGB images with the super reducer. And I noticed severe vignetting in the corners:
Calibrating my images with these flats seemed to work. But when I stacked these subs, I images like these:
In some corners, calibration worked well, but in others the flats clearly failed making the image either too bright or too dark.
I checked the calibration, took new flats, took panel flats - but the result was always the same. I wonder if my imaging train is sagging and that causes the incorrect calibration.
I checked the calibration, took new flats, took panel flats - but the result was always the same. I wonder if my imaging train is sagging and that causes the incorrect calibration.
Asked on the ccd-newastro mailing list. Ron Wodawski was incredibly helpful:
- he figured that the reducer should be able to illuminate the entire chip easily (it is specified as delivering a flat field of 65mm diameter - more then enough for my 16070 chip)
- he said to focus on all elements (correct orientation, correct spacers, correct location)
- he also said it could be because of the dew shield - that's easy to test.
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