Fixing my rotated Secondary mirror

Started by farmerdavid, 08/23/2005 10:12PM
Posted 08/23/2005 10:12PM Opening Post
I was messing with my LX90 (same OTA as the LX2000) and put it back together with the secondary assembly rotated to some unknown position. I got the corrector centered and put back to its' indexed position.
My question is twofold:
1 What difference does could it make, and why?
2 How would the problem be expressed in a star test spherical aberation, astigmatism, coma...?
I need to get this back in good shape, but can't afford to send it to Meade.
David
Posted 08/24/2005 04:40AM #1
I dont think the rotation of the secondary will matter. I know you need to get the corector back into an indexed position.

you will just need to do a star test, read up here for some SCT collmination tips. These three links should give you every thing you need to get your scope collimated

http://www.sctscopes.net/SCT_Tips/Maintenance/Collimation/collimation.html

http://home.att.net/~starastronomy/Astrophotos/Articles/SCT-Collimation/sct-collimation.html

http://www.wodaski.com/wodaski/collimation_cass.htm

James