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Curious question: what are the red-blue-green artifacts on the picture ? Is it due to the CCD sensor ?


I'm going to guess that this telescope takes color pictures by making a series of long exposures while cycling through red/green/blue filters. The object being tracked will appear normal, while objects in relative motion (in this case, the background stars) will appear as a trail of colors.




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