artificial star to lend? Or help collimate a scope?

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alweek
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artificial star to lend? Or help collimate a scope?

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Hi

I just got the 6" classical cassegrain that was put up for sale here. However, I would like to ask if anyone has an artificial star I can borrow to try to collimate the optics. Better still, any help with it would be greatly appreciated!!!

The classical cassegrain is a bit trickier To collimate than the normal sct's as both primary and secondary mirrors need to be adjusted.

So far, I did some basic eyeball-ing of the optics and seem to get concentric patterns when looking at a star but somehow the view still has a fine "haze" over everything... I also don't think I'm so good and lucky to hit collimation on the optics so easily on the first try.

Alan
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