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Archive for April 2010
20/04/2010: first collimation
20/04/2010 by yesyes.
Today I’ve tried collimating my telescope for the first time. I’ve used a Cheshire Collimation Tool. First inspection shows that collimation is not too bad but could use a bit of adjustment. I followed the instruction in Astro Baby’s guide here:
http://www.astro-baby.com/collimation/astro%20babys%20collimation%20guide.htm
It took me about 1 hour to do the collimation. It looks much better now through the Cheshire tool. I did go out with the scope after collimating it but shortly after setting everything up the clouds rolled in and stayed. So I had to pack up. I did manage to get a glimpse at a star and do a quick star test to see how collimation has improved. It did look a bit better and more round when out of focus. But I’ll have to wait for my next observing session to see if viewing has improved.
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