Help Collimating

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Dave Lillis
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Post by Dave Lillis » Wed May 29, 2013 9:11 am

Thats tonight, should be clear, good for testing the scope aswell.

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Post by Frank Ryan » Wed May 29, 2013 10:24 am

Ah my bad. Yip. Looks very good for tonight!

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Post by Dave Lillis » Thu May 30, 2013 12:37 am

Hi all, ,
That was perfect timing, collimation and clear weather, we spent some time collimating the scope using my own 2" kendrick collimator, scope is now working very well at low and high magnifications.

Roy, thats a fine scope you got there, it'll serve you well for many years to come. The collimator I used is a kendrick 2" standard laser, looking at their website, they don't seem to be as big into them as they used to be, here is the page, its not how I remember it several years ago, not as extensive,
http://www.kendrickastro.com/astro/lase ... Collimator

I said you wont find it on ebay. well, I had a a look to see whats there :o , cant be always right....
http://www.ebay.com/itm/KENDRICK-2067-A ... 2ec2e511bf
http://www.ebay.com/itm/2-Kendrick-2062 ... 19db927dd0
It states its a SCT collimator, I have found it works perfectly fine on a dob.

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Post by Roy Stewart » Fri May 31, 2013 11:43 am

Cheers Dave..

I got my hands on some of that
Epoxy adhesive, so myself and Daz
will give it a go over the weekend.
As for the Kendrick collimator, I'm
definitely going to invest in 1,

Thanks again for all ur help.

Cheers Roy
Roy Stewart.

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