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Originally Posted by Andy01
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For those interested in resolving tilted camera sensors, Diego at Sidereal Trading helped me out enormously with rectifying this recently. He cleverly built a test bench with a laser located at its' base, and a transparent panel sitting exactly parallel above.
The camera is then placed on the panel with its' shutter open. The reflected laser beam clearly shows any misalignment, which is then easily corrected by shims or a tilt plate in a matter of minutes - during daylight hours!
The process is similar to collimating the primary mirror on a Newtonian 'scope. Accurate, fast and eliminates the need to waste precious clear skies at night time!  |
A wonderful result.
Re; Andy's comments above....there is
some evidence to suggest bouncing lasers off sensors is a really bad idea (kills pixels or worse).....
how is possible damage being mittigated?