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Originally Posted by bmitchell82
Ian, pascal is a "amature" I thought i did a good job by going it by eye. I was sadly mistaken. you ask about collmination to nearly anybody here and they will say it is a must. Its not about being a perfectionist, thats where you get into the cats eye systems and what not, a simple laser collminator or ceshire eye piece will ensure that your optics are correct, or you might as well look though a coke bottle.!
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We're all amateurs here .
Pascal is a beginner , and there is no point making it all seem too hard to him , or getting him to think he needs to spend more money than necessary to get started .
He may be perfectly happy with the views he gets from a close but imperfectly collimated optical set in his 6" f5 for a long time, or just tweeking the collimation by eye every so often if he is moving the scope about a lot by hand and in the car. KISS.
Lasers as collimators for amateurs have been a relatively new development, amateurs with newtonians did quite OK for many decades without them and collimating by eye or with very basic (primitive) tools.