Ok this is a view through my collimation tube eypiece.
I am a bit confused exactly what is what at this point. I have viewed a few online tutorials but things seem to look a bit different to me. I am starting to understand some of it but I just want to make sure I have it at least 90% right, in my head, before I do too much poking around and adjusting screws etc.
Oh and my telescope has a nice little circle in the center of the main mirror. The laser collimator seems to point right to it when I put it into the focuser so it looks pretty good from there. Though the scope is a little out of whack I suspect it only needs a bit of tweeking
Ok this is as I figure it all out. The large (blury cross hairs) roughly at 45 degrees are the ones from the Collimation tool itself. The large white area around the outside is the primary mirror. With the smaller shiny bit inside being the secondary mirror. Am I even remotely right?
Also can anyone spot any obvious problems I should know about?
Thanks in advance
Something else I have come across my sight tube seems to be a Skywatcher version of a combined "Sight Tube" and "Cheshire" collimator. I didn't get any instructions with it so I am learning from scratch. I just thought that might be of help. I have also heard that barlowing the laser collimator is worthwhile (any comments). I think the barlow idea is a good one myself but I am only new to this game so I could be wrong. At least it seems good in theory.