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Old 09-11-2018, 05:01 AM
TareqPhoto (Tareq)
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I bought a Newtonian cheap and i wanted to buy a very expensive laser-based collimator [Howie] but i couldn't afford, so i bought a nice quality Cheshire, and just only yesterday i started to collimate the scope after nearly 8 months sleeping in the box, and i have to say it was a BIG nightmare for me to collimate it regardless it is F5 Newt, the main or only problem was the secondary mirror actually, not the primary, the only problem with primary is i couldn't reach all knobs while looking through eyepiece collimator, but it did it and i don't know if it collimator is proper now or not until i test it for stars, i just made a quick test using a regular eyepiece 25mm looking at LED light on my house wall that is nearly 20-25meters away from my door, it was sharp view really, too bad i didn't tried it without or before collimation to see the difference.


I think i will need a laser collimator only if i need to adjust primary more often.
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