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Is this because I have not used achromatic lens?

An easy way to check for the effects of chromatic aberration will be to look at a narrow wavelength source. These days that's easy because the spread in wavelengths from single color LEDs is only 510 to 20 nm1 depending on the specific LED. If you can find something with red, green or yellow LEDs (not the white ones) can you check to see if those can be focused more clearly? All you need is one small LED to do this, maybe across a room. If your focal length is 1.1 meters and the LED is 10 meters away, you'll have to pull your eyepiece out by another 10 cm farther than you would for focusing at infinity.

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Note also that chromatic aberration is stronger in the blue than in the red.

You can also estimate the effect with a bright white object with a sharp edge (like a white piece of paper) on a black or dark background. If the edges are blurry with strong color effects (blue and red in different places) then this may indeed be the problem.

If so, you might have to invest in an achromatic objective to get rid of this problem, or look only at things that are monochromatic (and in Astronomy there aren't many of those!)

In addition to making sure the eyepiece lens is centered on the objective lens' axis, you also have to make sure the eyepiece lens isn't tilted. Both of those will cause problems and the point-like LED spot will show this. It might look like a fuzzy comet coma aberration.

Can it be resolved if I used any coated eyepiece?

No, don't worry about that for now. Adding antireflection coatings to lenses reduces reflections which are a big problem when there are multiple lens elements with air gaps between them within the eyepiece or the objective. Those cause lens flare usually only a big problem if there are very bright, point-like objects in the field of view. But in your case each is a single element, so not an issue.

Is this issue is because the size of eyepiece is so small.

No, I think it's because of some combination of the eyepiece not being positioned properly and chromatic aberration, and a test on an LED might be one way to separate the two effects for diagnostic purposes. If the blurriness has a lot of color associated with it, especially around white objects on black backgrounds, this is your primary culprit I think.

Is this because I have not used achromatic lens?

An easy way to check for the effects of chromatic aberration will be to look at a narrow wavelength source. These days that's easy because the spread in wavelengths from single color LEDs is only 5 to 20 nm depending on the specific LED. If you can find something with red, green or yellow LEDs (not the white ones) can you check to see if those can be focused more clearly? All you need is one small LED to do this, maybe across a room. If your focal length is 1.1 meters and the LED is 10 meters away, you'll have to pull your eyepiece out by another 10 cm farther than you would for focusing at infinity.

You can also estimate the effect with a bright white object with a sharp edge (like a white piece of paper) on a black or dark background. If the edges are blurry with strong color effects (blue and red in different places) then this may indeed be the problem.

If so, you might have to invest in an achromatic objective to get rid of this problem, or look only at things that are monochromatic (and in Astronomy there aren't many of those!)

In addition to making sure the eyepiece lens is centered on the objective lens' axis, you also have to make sure the eyepiece lens isn't tilted. Both of those will cause problems and the point-like LED spot will show this. It might look like a fuzzy comet coma aberration.

Can it be resolved if I used any coated eyepiece?

No, don't worry about that for now. Adding antireflection coatings to lenses reduces reflections which are a big problem when there are multiple lens elements with air gaps between them within the eyepiece or the objective. Those cause lens flare usually only a big problem if there are very bright, point-like objects in the field of view. But in your case each is a single element, so not an issue.

Is this issue is because the size of eyepiece is so small.

No, I think it's because of some combination of the eyepiece not being positioned properly and chromatic aberration, and a test on an LED might be one way to separate the two effects for diagnostic purposes. If the blurriness has a lot of color associated with it, especially around white objects on black backgrounds, this is your primary culprit I think.

Is this because I have not used achromatic lens?

An easy way to check for the effects of chromatic aberration will be to look at a narrow wavelength source. These days that's easy because the spread in wavelengths from single color LEDs is only 10 to 20 nm1 depending on the specific LED. If you can find something with red, green or yellow LEDs (not the white ones) can you check to see if those can be focused more clearly? All you need is one small LED to do this, maybe across a room. If your focal length is 1.1 meters and the LED is 10 meters away, you'll have to pull your eyepiece out by another 10 cm farther than you would for focusing at infinity.

1random example

Note also that chromatic aberration is stronger in the blue than in the red.

You can also estimate the effect with a bright white object with a sharp edge (like a white piece of paper) on a black or dark background. If the edges are blurry with strong color effects (blue and red in different places) then this may indeed be the problem.

If so, you might have to invest in an achromatic objective to get rid of this problem, or look only at things that are monochromatic (and in Astronomy there aren't many of those!)

In addition to making sure the eyepiece lens is centered on the objective lens' axis, you also have to make sure the eyepiece lens isn't tilted. Both of those will cause problems and the point-like LED spot will show this. It might look like a fuzzy comet coma aberration.

Can it be resolved if I used any coated eyepiece?

No, don't worry about that for now. Adding antireflection coatings to lenses reduces reflections which are a big problem when there are multiple lens elements with air gaps between them within the eyepiece or the objective. Those cause lens flare usually only a big problem if there are very bright, point-like objects in the field of view. But in your case each is a single element, so not an issue.

Is this issue is because the size of eyepiece is so small.

No, I think it's because of some combination of the eyepiece not being positioned properly and chromatic aberration, and a test on an LED might be one way to separate the two effects for diagnostic purposes. If the blurriness has a lot of color associated with it, especially around white objects on black backgrounds, this is your primary culprit I think.

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uhoh
uhoh
  • 30.7k
  • 9
  • 98
  • 313

Is this because I have not used achromatic lens?

An easy way to check for the effects of chromatic aberration will be to look at a narrow wavelength source. These days that's easy because the spread in wavelengths from single color LEDs is only 5 to 20 nm depending on the specific LED. If you can find something with red, green or yellow LEDs (not the white ones) can you check to see if those can be focused more clearly? All you need is one small LED to do this, maybe across a room. If your focal length is 1.1 meters and the LED is 10 meters away, you'll have to pull your eyepiece out by another 10 cm farther than you would for focusing at infinity.

You can also estimate the effect with a bright white object with a sharp edge (like a white piece of paper) on a black or dark background. If the edges are blurry with strong color effects (blue and red in different places) then this may indeed be the problem.

If so, you might have to invest in an achromatic objective to get rid of this problem, or look only at things that are monochromatic (and in Astronomy there aren't many of those!)

In addition to making sure the eyepiece lens is centered on the objective lens' axis, you also have to make sure the eyepiece lens isn't tilted. Both of those will cause problems and the point-like LED spot will show this. It might look like a fuzzy comet coma aberration.

Can it be resolved if I used any coated eyepiece?

No, don't worry about that for now. Adding antireflection coatings to lenses reduces reflections which are a big problem when there are multiple lens elements with air gaps between them within the eyepiece or the objective. Those cause lens flare usually only a big problem if there are very bright, point-like objects in the field of view. But in your case each is a single element, so not an issue.

Is this issue is because the size of eyepiece is so small.

No, I think it's because of some combination of the eyepiece not being positioned properly and chromatic aberration, and a test on an LED might be one way to separate the two effects for diagnostic purposes. If the blurriness has a lot of color associated with it, especially around white objects on black backgrounds, this is your primary culprit I think.