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Old 30-05-2012, 12:06 PM
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Pat, your secondary mirror is too low. You need to bring it up closer to the OTA opening.

See attached animation


Read the first page of the following thread to get an idea about the 3 collimation alignments. Lasers can handle only 2 of the 3.

http://www.cloudynights.com/ubbthrea.../o/all/fpart/1

Jason
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