Laser Collimation/newtonian headaches
Hi,
I am having some headaches with collimating my reflector. I bought a laser collimator from bintel, however the issue i have is with my scope. It would appear that to make the scope more marketable the manufacturer has decided to build optics in to the focuser. (its a 4.5" saxon a couple of years old now)
The issue that i have is the return beam from the collimator gets all distorted which makes it impossible to align with the source. I have marked the center of my mirror but cantering the beam to the mark produces dissapointing results.
I was wondering if anyone has had an experience such as this. I have plans to buy an 8" dob in a couple of months anyway, but it would be nice to keep the 4.5" for friends and family etc.
Thanks
Daniel
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