Ad Astra Observatory

I spent a long time collimating Veronica the other day, with the new autocollimator I bought. That experience convinced me to buy Bob’s Knobs for Veronica and Cassie.

I knew I would have to recollimate afterwards, but I was ready, at least in the case of Veronica, because I knew she was in collimation before I started, so I knew that I would only have to adjust the secondary to get her back in collimation.

Cassie is a different story, but that’s OK, too. I’m out of the night sky business for awhile, so I have plenty of time to get everything fixed up.

I was worried that collimation would take a lot of time after the install. Starting from a good base, it was really quick. Took maybe 20 minutes from the time I removed the first screw to the time I declared Veronica back in collimation and put her back outside.

Not bad. And the new Knobs really make adjustment easy.

Totally worth it.