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Erik, first of all do not touch the collimation on a Tak refractor, leave that up to Takahashi, no one else knows what to do with them. I can speak from experience on this matter. That is the content of another thread. My first toa130 had astigmatism and was sent back to the factory under warranty and they replaced the whole telescope. The star shapes on this were of a sort of triangular shape. It would be much easier to view an image of the star shapes to form an opinion.
Just briefly I managed to knock the collimation out of kilter when the scope clipped my roll off roof. At the advice of the Australian distributor I sent it to a mob in Sydney who he said were qualified to collimate my TOA130. They basically trashed it, and it had to go back to Japan to be rebuilt back to new specs. That company in Sydney has since ceased trading, which is not a surprise to me.
What I am saying is. if it is out of collimation, send it back to Takahashi, let no one else near it!!!
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