Service for C6S

[jollyjack]

Had my C6S for about 8 months now. Obviously limited use due to the awful summer. Have been out and about a few times recently and have decided it could do with a "service". Minor collimation, some dirt on the primary and a good clean of the corrector all necessary as well as some good lube for the working parts to cover the winter. Any advice on the collimation and cleaning of the primary, or does any one offer a professional service? Don't want to dismantle the sealed tube and start mucking about with precision optics really!!

[GazOC]

On the cleaning of the primary my advice would be don't do it, it takes a lot of "crud" on the mirror to make any appreciable difference in views, you'd be opening a sealed scope up and not really achieving anything in terms of improving the performance of the telescope.

[DaveGibbons]

Gaz is dead right on this one, Do not try and clean the primary mirror, so much can go wrong with that one! The corrector plate is relatively straightforward and many tutorials are out there on the web with best practice on that one. A few specs of dust on the main mirror have Zero impact, in fact a modest amount of dust has zero impact and a large amount of dust virtually no impact on how your telescope performs! collimation and cooldown are far more important to the quality of images at the eyepiece.

cheers

Dave