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Old 02-09-2006, 09:48 AM
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Collimating Newtonians

Hi there
I thought I might post this web link which I found very interesting about collimating newtonians and what a well collimated scope should look like down the focuser.

http://www.fpi-protostar.com/collim.htm

After trying to line things up over the last few days as described in most books etc, the light cone still was not centered till I came across this site which showed me what it should look like. After a few hours I finally got my mirrors lined up!!! You definately need that offset!!! and it throws of the symetrical view down the focuser..
Cheers Gary
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