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Old 03-10-2010, 07:16 PM
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cant collimate astromaster 130eq (help)

Hi there everyone.
I've been trying to collimate this scope on and off since i got it last year, and it's been impossible. I've read as many tutorials as i a could find on the subject, but no matter what i do, the mirrors never seem to align up. Now after more searching i've just found this info:

"With a fast scope there is alkways an offset in collimation which causes the theoretically set of concentric circls to be pushed off centre. This means either the sceondary cannot be centred under the focuser OR the primary reflections cant be made concentric to the secondary."

so all this time it seems that i've been doing it wrong anyway.
Is there anyone out there that knows how to collimate this properly. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanx

Roobi
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