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Old 05-10-2013, 11:40 PM
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Manav (Yugant)
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Unhappy I crashed my GSO 10" RC

What poor luck! After week or so waiting for a clear night I finally got home to put together the scope and mount. Stupidly, I took off the mount weights before the scope itself and next sec of my life was the longest ever.

Telescope smashes into wall and weights hit the ground.

Apart from the bruising my pride took, the incident resulted in bent OAG adapter and significant bodywork damage to the filter wheel.

What I am really worried about is the fact that after looking through the focuser my secondary/primary doesn't look aligned.

I don't have any collimation tools and am worried I may have stuffed up the scope. Is anyone aware if the GSO RC can be collimated by Bintel or Andrewcomms? Surely a smash into the wall wouldn't have misplaced the primary? Ohh God

Regards
YB

P.S: I haven't even looked at the QHY9 yet
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