Alpine Astronomical Baader 2" Mark III Multi-Purpose Coma Corrector for Dobsonian OTAs

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Alpine Astronomical Baader 2" Mark III Multi-Purpose Coma Corrector for Dobsonian OTAs
Key Features
  • Visual and Astrophotographic Use
  • Use on f/3.5 - f/6 Fast Dobsonian OTAs
  • Ideal for DSLR Cameras or CCD Imagers
  • No Ghosting from UV/IR Wavelengths
An ideal visual and photographic tool for fast Dobsonian optical tube assemblies (OTAs), the Alpine Astronomical Baader 2" Mark III Multi-Purpose Coma Corrector (MPCC) improves your views and image quality on any OTA with a removable 2" collar. It eliminates distracting off-axis comas and ensures stars remain tack sharp all the way to the edges—without adding any magnification, reducing the focal length, or narrowing the field of view.
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Alpine Astronomical MPCC Overview

An ideal visual and photographic tool for fast Dobsonian optical tube assemblies (OTAs), the Alpine Astronomical Baader 2" Mark III Multi-Purpose Coma Corrector (MPCC) improves your views and image quality on any OTA with a removable 2" collar. It eliminates distracting off-axis comas and ensures stars remain tack sharp all the way to the edges—without adding any magnification, reducing the focal length, or narrowing the field of view.

The MPCC is optimized for fast f/3.5 to f/6 Dobs and will transmit enough light to completely cover today's large DSLR camera and CCD imager sensors without vignetting or requiring addition back focus distance. Phantom Group Multi-Coatings maximize transmission through the visual bands while blocking ultraviolet (UV) and infrared (IR) wavelengths to prevent ghosting by sensors that are sensitive to them. The MPCC has standard 2" eyepiece filter threads and a second set of male threads that match their T-2 Astro modular accessory system to give users access to a wide assortment of adapters and rings that allow the corrector to be attached to gear from eyepiece holders to imagers with relative ease.

Alpine Astronomical MPCC Reviews

After numerous changes in direction, it works fine

By Roger
Rated 3 out of 5
Date: 2024-08-12

It took a lot of effort to get good results with my gear and the Baader Mark III MPCC. I'm using it with a Nikon 810 camera and an 8 Orion f4.9 Newtonium. Refer to the drawing on the back page of the manual to insure that you will be able to meet the backfocus requirements between the MPCC and the plane of your camera's sensor. Shims may be required if the distance is short. I don't think anything can be done if the distance is too long. Baader offers a set of shims that can get you to the proper length. The other backfocus to consider is the distance the lens of the MPCC needs to be from the secondary mirror. In my case, The coma corrector needed to be placed quite far into my drawtube in order to obtain proper focusing. I had to have a local machine shop make an modified focuser draw-tube eyepiece receiver for me to achieve the necessary secondary mirror / MPCC backfocus on my setup. I had a copy of the original focuser eyepiece receiver made with all of the tubing above the collar removed. Collimation is critical for an successful image. In my case, I have a slight design flaw in my modified eyepiece receiver where the placement of the set screws in my receiver line up with that little ridge at the bottom of the MPCC (refer to image on the product above). This can be enough to set the MPCC in my setup slightly askew of perpendicular. Even a small mis-collimation will give pronounced coma in the corners and edges of the image. I corrected this for the most part on my setup by wrapping a paper shim around the barrel of the MPCC tube. The images I have so far are certainly improved over not using the MPCC. Before I had very obvious comas around the edges of of the field of view and now they are visibly reduced. There are still some visible but in almost any image that I shoot, those are cropped off. I have a bigger image area post cropping now. There is almost no coma but for the far corners of the images when I shoot in DX mode on the Nikon 810.

Decent Coma Correction

By Sam
Rated 3 out of 5
Date: 2020-11-23

This coma corrector does a decent job at correcting coma. It is an improvement over no corrector, but it does not remove all coma. The corners and edge areas of the image still exhibit some coma. This is on an f/4 Newtonian scope. This should work well with an f/5 and greater scope. Well made, and flexible with removeable rings to convert from 42mm to 48mm threads.

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are all adapters shown included in the box? in ...

are all adapters shown included in the box? in other words do i have to purchase any thing to go from 2 inch eyepiece to 1 1/4 eye piece
Asked by: James
Correct everything is included or 2" or 1.25"
Answered by: John
Date published: 2021-11-24

Can I use it on my newt with 1 1/4 focuser?

Can I use it on my newt with 1 1/4 focuser?
Asked by: Ramesh
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