Thursday, June 5, 2014

Accurate Collimation for Newtonian Reflector

Collimate Newtonian telescope is easy when using the right tools, for me, astrosystem's light pipe is used to accurately square the focuser with secondary mirror. Kendrick laser is used to fast close the light path. and final touch on secondary is aided by autocollimator. The result is never seen before! Details of Mars are vivid, polar caps, dark brown region. all become clear at 450x!

Saturday, January 25, 2014

I see Sirius B tonight!

After I collimate my C14 as accurate as I can, I aim it at Sirius,  change eyepiece to nagler 7mm, I see a dim star locate east, about 10" from Sirius. It separate clearly. To eliminate possible ghost glare, I move out of focus slightly. it disappear, refocus, it get back. I am pretty sure it is Sirius-B!

Congratulate myself!