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Collimation Circles, app for easy telescope collimation

EAA Collimation
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Hi, I'm the author of the Collimation Circles application. It is free and open source.
Collimation Circles application is EAC (Electronically Asisted Collimation) tool to achive perfect or near perfect telescope collimation.

Here are some useful links for you to get started:

I hope you will find it useful. Thank you!

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I very happy to anounce, that new version of Colimation Circles 3.1.0 is awailable.

You can download it here: https://bit.ly/42yJ3BO

Whats new:
Added UVC and Raspberry Pi camera support by @sajmons in #17
Fix for issue #15 when saving JSON file if UI language is not English app crashes by @sajmons in #16



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I wrote series of articles about advanced newtonian collimation and how it's done with Collimation Circles application.

All three parts are available here: 
  1. https://saimons-astronomy.webador.com/1769915_advanced-newtonian-telescope-collimation-part-1
  2. https://saimons-astronomy.webador.com/1769983_advanced-newtonian-telescope-collimation-part-2
  3. https://saimons-astronomy.webador.com/1769983_advanced-newtonian-telescope-collimation-part-3


I hope you will find it usefull.
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I'm very happy to announce that new version of Collimation Circles 3.2.0 beta7 application is available!

More here: https://www.saimons-astronomy.com/1956214_new-release-of-collimation-circles-3-2-0-beta7
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Collimation Circles 3.2.0 stable is out

This is best release of my application yet! It's full featured and stable for daily use.

Full blog post here:

https://www.saimons-astronomy.com/2101949_collimation-circles-3-2-0-stable-is-out

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I’ll give this a try just to see how it works. Thanks for creating this!

Dale
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