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Hi Jarrod,
I had to do an initial adjustment of the secondary with the lens removed from the focuser. I set the secondary using a collimation cap made from an old film canister. Once that was setup I aligned the primary with a laser then put the lens back in the focuser and fine tuned by star testing. As I'd never collimated a scope before, there was a fair bit of trail and error, but I think I've got it as good as I can get with the quality of the optics in this model. Basically that means there is still a slight touch of coma when focused. However if the seeing is good, I can just see the bands on Jupiter and I've been able to take some cool photographs of the moon and some of the brighter clusters. Not too bad for light polluted inner city Melbourne,
Given the vibration from the fairly dodgy tripod and the rough focuser on this scope, it can be really improved by adding some sort of fine focus control. I added a motor to the focuser but it involved a bit of surgery and I probably invalidated the warranty at the same time. You could try fitting a larger knob to one of the focus controllers - say a plastic vegemite jar lid drilled out to snuggly fit around one of the existing knobs.
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