[Ryderscope (Rodney)]

Hi Erik,Paul. Yes - I have purchased the Takscope. Haven't run it up yet but will do so in the next couple of days when I get a chance.

I have just come in from tonight's activity which was to line up the focuser. The scope has the moonlite focuser with a bintel collimation ring so I decided to check that first and it was out quite a bit. I used a 2" laser to line up the focuser to the centre dot on the secondary. I checked the laser first and it seems in good collimation. To check it in the scope I rotated it 90 deg. and the spot on the secondary only moved a small amount so I am reasonably confident that it is ok. I have attached some images taken with my 60Da attached to the scope to show the out of focus star image (Bcrux). Whilst the lining up of the focuser has improved things there is still some work to do here.

I have also attached a 120s capture of Bcrux @ ISO200 and it does not look too pretty when moving away from the centre of the image. Lets see how we go with the Takscope.