Great video series, and not just for beginners!

[chrisp9au]

Found a series of videos on Youtube that should be of interest to everyone, especially newcomers to telescopes.
The videos, all 102 of them, are presented by Astronomy & Nature Tv in the UK.

2 videos on collimation...

Collimating a Newtonian http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G98RTP6jbY

Collimating an SCT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqRVIDj4aZA

If you want to check out all 102 videos http://www.youtube.com/user/AstronomyAndNatureTV/videos?view=0

The one on using setting circles on small telescope mounts might make you stop and think! :eyepop:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geQszAVWMok

Anyway, hope somebody gets something useful from them

Cheers :thumbsup:

Chris

[Astro_Bot]

Thanks. Very timely. I just bought myself an "artificial star" from Agena Astro for this very purpose. (I looked at making one, but I can't make the precision holes myself and the cost of buying them or getting them done was much more than the cost of Agena's ready-made product).

[brian nordstrom]

:thumbsup: Thanks Chris , I took a quick look at some ( 5, ;) ) of " 102 videos" and added the whole lot to my favorites .
A great link for the cloudy nights we will be getting up here during the wet .:) .
I hope lots of newbies suss this out , great site !
Thanks again Mate .
Brian.