Laser collimator

[leighqt]

after watching a you tube video on laser collimation, I thought this is the best route for me,as I'm not technically minded .

[ronin]

If you can borrow a collimator of any sort then do so and find out how you get on.

They seem to be another one of those thing that you either get on with easily or find completely impossible.

A video on Youtube is not going to be of someone not being able to use one. They might find it OK you may not.

By the way to throw a spanner in the works, before using a laser collimator you need to check that the collimator itself is collimated. Otherwise it is of very limited use as it will not then aligh anything. My apologies for complicating matters. Did the vid show how the do this ?

[Steve Ward]

If not then here's how ...

[Sky Clad]

If not then here's how ...

Yep I found that vid the other day and was completely impressed.

How easy is it to knock these Laser collimating tools out of allignment?

[Sky Clad]

I should have added in my last post that if you look at the reviews of collimating tools sold on Amazon, many of them even arrive through the post out of alignment

[Astralstroll]

Ive got a Hotech laser collimator, and find it very simple to use. Collimation usually taking a few minutes at most to get sorted. Im sure that other people could fine tune my scopes a lot better with more tried and trusted methods, but for me the laser works just fine.

Dave.

[Sky Clad]

Actually - there is another thread in here, where a question about Laser or Cheshire collimators was posed. It turns out a lot of people have both.

[Schorhr]

I have both, I use the Cheshire-sight tube much more. It is universal and with a red light usable at night, and less trouble with wobbly focusers, needs no collimation itself, no batteries, and useful for aligning the secondary mirror. :-)