davidpretorius
19-08-2005, 08:59 AM
Hi all,
It was raining, i meditated for 20 minutes and took the plunge........screwdriver in hand, i nervously took the screws of the bottom of the tube and took out the primary mirror. Put the whole lot on some speaker foam i had bought form jaycar, covered it with a towel, sat down and waited for my nerves to settle!!!!
...20 mins later... out came the mirror and now is proudly sitting there waiting to be centre spotted. jumped on the internet to read the collimation article in the projects section, but the site was down.....bugga....
so i did a search on the internet and found this rather good link. http://www.schlatter.org/Dad/Astronomy/collimate.htm
called collimating my dob.
a great read for any dob owner.
With the rain continuing, i will be having a go at this tonight. Asimov will tell me "Good Boy"! "Stop being such a woos"
by the way, just checking, the screws with springs are for adjusting, the ones with out springs are for locking???
It was raining, i meditated for 20 minutes and took the plunge........screwdriver in hand, i nervously took the screws of the bottom of the tube and took out the primary mirror. Put the whole lot on some speaker foam i had bought form jaycar, covered it with a towel, sat down and waited for my nerves to settle!!!!
...20 mins later... out came the mirror and now is proudly sitting there waiting to be centre spotted. jumped on the internet to read the collimation article in the projects section, but the site was down.....bugga....
so i did a search on the internet and found this rather good link. http://www.schlatter.org/Dad/Astronomy/collimate.htm
called collimating my dob.
a great read for any dob owner.
With the rain continuing, i will be having a go at this tonight. Asimov will tell me "Good Boy"! "Stop being such a woos"
by the way, just checking, the screws with springs are for adjusting, the ones with out springs are for locking???