bwana wrote:
I suspect the previous owner actually dropped the scope. At least the camera attached to the scope was destroyed.
It took me most of the afternoon with Cheshire and laser collimators to get the scope back to reasonable alignment. I finalized the alignment on Vega. It is fortunate my wife is visiting her sister or she might have objected to some of my language when I turned screws the wrong direction and made things worse...
It is rare for a RC scope to ever have the primary mirror go out of alignment. If anything, all that is required is a minor tweak of the secondary. In this case the primary mirror was off by a full turn of the adjustment screws which, of course, seriously impacted the secondary mirror alignment. But it is now back to factory specs and I shot eight targets with it this evening/morning. We'll see how they turn out!?
bwa
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I'm looking forward to seeing the results of your tweak.
You were getting pretty close with the first set, I've definitely seen worse from my scopes.
Clear skies.