Bad news ,,, but ,,,, have a look at that nice 127mm SW Mak in the classifieds .
Only $250 now and this would be a great step up from the old 102mm ?
These are good scopes and I am wondering why it aint sold yet ?
Worth a look Renato .
Brian.
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Originally Posted by Renato1
Hi Everyone,
In my other thread, I reported the difficulty I was having collimating my 4" Meade Mak and how finally, after a week I had it working relatively well. Saturn was sharp, markings could be seen on Mars, but the diffraction ring around stars was just slightly out.
So this evening I gave it its last collimation tweak, and went out to view Jupiter. And found that the focusing knob no longer moved the mirror, so that I couldn't view anything.
It may be fixable, but I'd have to remove the inner back cover on which the collimation screws sit, to have a look inside. And even if I did see something simple to fix with the focusing mechanism, I'd then have to collimate the telescope again for days, hoping the focuser didn't stuff up along the way.
I have decided to bin it, as I no longer want to see it.
From memory, this telescope cost me around US$160, and it was brand new when I got it. I was expecting better from Meade stuff.
Cheers,
Renato
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