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Old 26-02-2023, 02:42 PM
Todo43 (Lachlan)
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RC Collimation

Hi all,


I have acquired a 6RC recently and am trying to get it setup. It was horribly out of collimation and I took it out last night to try and get it slightly better and I did just that. Got it to a level where I could see the object, just with a serious lack of detail for a scope at 1370mm.



I have a friend who has a collimator except I think it is for a Newt. If I borrowed that, would I be able to use it for the RC? I would think that I need to align the secondary mirror to the alignment of the focus tube because the primary is fixed so it should work? Please correct me if I am wrong.


Attached is the image I got last night without any stars because they were horribly out of focus and out of collimation.
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