Best ressources for collimation of instruments

Equipment Collimation
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Jérémie avatar
Jérémie avatar
Hi fellow astrophotographers,
I try to gather much info about the best ressources you have found - books, dedicated websites and youtube videos - about « collimation » of your instruments.
Please post a brief title (Collimation of Ritchey Chretien / Newton etc…smile and your links.
Thanks for your help !
Vitali avatar
Vitali avatar
Hi Jérémie,

this might be interesting for you:
http://www.deepskyinstruments.com/truerc/docs/DSI_Collimation_Procedure_Ver_1.0.pdf

Best regards,
Vitali
Luís Ramalho avatar
Luís Ramalho avatar
Hi Jérémi,

Some interest links about collimation:

http://www.madpc.co.uk/~peterv/astroplover/equipnbits/RC10collim.htm

http://www.hnsky.org/RC_collimation.htm

https://stargazerslounge.com/topic/349932-help-please-collimating-an-rc-with-a-howie-glatter/

http://www.astrophoto.fr/collim.html

https://www.rcopticalsystems.com/support/images/rcos_alignment_collimation.pdf

http://www.dosborne-astroimages.co.uk/equip_image/collimation_article.htm

https://rk.edu.pl/en/takahashi-collimation-telescope-rc-dk-sct-and-cassegrain-telescope-collimation/#1

http://sweiller.free.fr/collimation.html#Chapitre3
Software:https://smallstarspot.com/metaguide/

Best regards

Lu´is Ramalho
Jérémie avatar
Jérémie avatar
Fantastic guys, thanks a lot, having those links will make me spare some time !