Hmmmm, maybe this is why the collimation was out.....

[Stu]

DOH!!

[Moonshane]

Reasons are good Stu

I presume this is an easy fix?

[wookie1965]

Wow that is tilted.

[gnomus]

Not entirely sure what I am looking at (I'm too frit too dismantle anything), but it doesn't look right.  

[Chris]

Secondary from the C9.25 I'm guessing? I wonder how much aperture was being used with this much tilt? 

[xtreemchaos]

that's a the setting for looking round corners Stu . charl.

[gnomus]

4 minutes ago, Lockie said:

Secondary from the C9.25 I'm guessing? I wonder how much aperture was being used with this much tilt? 

Oh - I just assumed it was out of the Tak....

[SilverAstro]

5 minutes ago, xtreemchaos said:

that's a the setting for looking round corners Stu . charl.

  either that or he was looking at a Neutron Star just off to the left a bit

Perhaps mistook the Eq wedge adjustment? Looks a bit shallow,  set for somewhere north of the Arctic Circle ?

 

[MarsG76]

Hmm, looks like a good bet that this cause your collimation issues.

[Stu]

Thanks all for the answers to keep me laughing through it all!

Shane, yes an easy fix thankfully.

For sake of full disclosure, it was alright until I messed around with it!

In terms of fear of dismantling the scope, there is none. This was an insurance right off which I bought and fixed. Nothing majorly wrong, just a loose secondary holder which took some fixing but all ok. Getting the snail trails off the front corrector was much harder!

I'm taking it apart to flock as much of it as I can, to try to eliminate the horrid arcing reflection I get, not sure where from.

[SilverAstro]

43 minutes ago, Stu said:

DOH!!

Or even "Gosh"  ! I'm surprised that anything got out the hole at the bottom, "Baffling" even

You have been dreaming about Schiefspieglers ?