Got my camera cleaned - Great job Atik!

[Zaphod]

Just before I went on holiday, I approached Atk about cleaning my 383L+, it had a horrible kidney shaped dust bunny from day 1, and obviously had also accumulated some more over time too. So about three weeks ago I sent it off. It came back on Thursday and I tried it out yesterday as part of re-calibrating for flats with the Avian Starseeker.

What a great job they did and so this is a big thankyou to Steve Chambers and his team at Atik for a job excellently done and at no charge, service of the highest quality.

Results presented here,

Flat taken with my WO Megrez 80II FD prior to the clean...

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...and following it taken with the new scope

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Well pleased, looking forward to a great autumn now.



Chris

[DaveS]

That's good news Chris

I have wonder how the dust gets in there , is the CCD on the not in a sealed chamber like the SX cameras ?

Dave

[Zaphod]

That's good news Chris

I have wonder how the dust gets in there , is the CCD on the not in a sealed chamber like the SX cameras ?

Dave

Yes Dave, it is in a sealed chamber so the object that gave me the kidney shaped shadow was in there from the beginning when I bought it. The other shadows i'm sure were on the window.



Chris