Hi,
My wife bought me an Orion deluxe laser collimator for christmas. I put it in the focuser and rotated the collimator in the focuser and the beam then rotates on the mirror in a circle about 1.5cm across.
I assume that if the laser collimator is correctly collimated then the dot should not move when the laser is rotated. Is this correct?
The laser collimator was tight in the focuser, so it was sitting in the focuser properly.
Because I thought that the collimation on the laser was out I rang the supplier and told them the problem (the book that came with the collimator said that if the collimation was out that it needed to be sent back to the factory).
The reply from the retailer was that they have NEVER had an orion laser collimator that was out of collimation. This got me thinking that maybe I'm being too fussy with how well the collimator should perform or maybe it is collimated properly and the I'm testing it incorrectly.
Any help with this problem would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks