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19. Now place the three parts shown above on
the thread of the RASA 8 lens group cell
and screw the Celestron coupling nut to-
gether with the 0.5 mm spacer ring and the
FCCT RASA flange
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slightly hand-tight.
Now centre the telescope flange as best
as possible in the union nut and then
tighten it further.
Caution:
Always tighten this retaining ring
only hand-tight, never with force!
20. Place the camera with the previously
mounted FCCT filter chamber in the desi-
red orientation on the RASA telescope
flange of the FCCT and hand-tighten the
six screws
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(spanner size 1.3 mm).
Please be careful not to damage the
Schmidt corrector plate with the hexago-
nal spanner!
21. Rotate the camera so that the long or
narrow sides of the sensor point exactly
to the dovetail rail of the tube. In this way,
the camera is aligned with the R.A. and
DEC axes of the mount (see also
page
15
).
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Attaching the FCCT to the RASA 8
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