First light: Baader Planetarium Rowe Triplet Coma Corrector for Newtonians - RCC-I
Goal: install, configure & test out the Baader Planetarium Rowe Triplet Coma Corrector - RCC-I on the Orion CN10 (long tube) 10" Newtonian. This is an attempt at replacing the Teleview Paracorr (type 1) since my example is ancient, hazy (smoky...amber colored...ich) and results in a 15% increase in focal length. Early testing with my example paracorr suggested similar light throughput as the (deforked) Meade LX10 EMC 8" with a 0.63x focal reducer (which is sad). A key challenge with the RCC-I in this Newtonian is the focuser. It comes with a T-adapter...and an eyepiece adapter...neither of which work with this 2" coma corrector...because it needs to go _into_ the focuser. Sadly, the eyepiece adapter for the focuser brings the camera too far out... and the T-adapter provides no mechanism to mount the coma corrector. This was confirmed on the first night...which resulted in no images... with no mechanism to reach infinity focus. Had started using local terrain