Hi all, well had Peter up for a visit today, we talked about scopes and in particular the collimation of my Lx200. He brought a whole plethora of laser collimators. So we thought we would give them a go to collimate my scope. Don't get me wrong, the scope can be collimated pretty well by star. However, I want perfection or as near to it as possible.
Unfortunately, the collimators did not work and put the scope out again. Not to worry though I have got it back to where it was last night in about half an hour tonight with the laptop and toucam method.
Funny thing happened while we were putting my laser collimator onto the scope. I accidently dropped the zero image focusor onto my foot and then it bounced onto the pavers below the deck. Watching it in slow motion as it hit the concrete pavers. Another place to put carpet. Peter said I won't tell anyone if you don't. I did not loose it, I just thought well thats luck for you. Anyway as it turns out, the micro focusor is working fine besides a couple of dents. Pretty embarrassing, dropping something like that.
But you got to laugh when you have one of those days that has the highs of getting a good capture of Jupiter and the lows of dropping a piece of equipment.
Thanks Peter for coming over and trying to sort out my collimation. We learnt a few things, normal laser collimators are not to be used on SCT's. Good thing to learn and so I am now outside once again waiting for the wind to die down and the seeing to get better so that I can do the final collimation with the toucam and the laptop.
Clear skies to all and
