Collimation of a telescope seems to be a popular subject in Amateur Astronomy. I first looked at it a couple of years ago with a simple reflector telescope, so I thought I'd go through the procedure with more complex telescopes.
Today we will collimate an Orion 8 inch Ritchey Chretien and a 10 inch Meade Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope. The procedure is similar and we'll look at laser collimators, tilt plates, and complicating factors such as flexion and balance.
Bottom line, collimation can be perfect, but do you want to spend 3 hours of your limited telescope time doing it? Or do you want to use the telescope. We look at bench collimation and star collimation in this episode.
In our next video, I'll walk you through the nightly set up of your rig and put all this together for you.
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