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Old 27-07-2019, 01:17 PM
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Originally Posted by RussellH View Post
Hi All,

So my Skywatcher F5 6" Newt arrived yesterday, and I'm going through the setup process and need a little advice please.

I spent some time making a jig to collimate my laser collimator, and have just finished that process. Putting the laser in the scope, it shows out of alignment. Looking through the front of the cope, the laser point is on the ring around the centre spot on the primary.

So, I'm trying to loosen the phillips head screw in the centre of the secondary mirror, but it won't budge. I don't want to break anything by forcing it. It's a standard RHS system I assume, so I should be turning the screw counter clockwise to undo it? Should they be this tight out of the box?

Thanks.
Russell.
You should collimate using the three screws surrounding the centre screw, loosen one tighten another to tilt the secondary and thus move the laser beam...
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