Re: [ATM] 8" F/4.2... Done?

[Joe <nss@mwt.net>]

Hi Nils,
I collimate, I would think just like everyone else I have ever known 
done it.  Plus, when doing a star test, or at least when I do one,, if 
it isn't collimated perfectly you know it immediately. So, really don't 
understand the whole dot thing.

Nils Olof Carlin wrote:

> Joe (not the average kind, I guess)
>
>> I've been an ATM for over 30+ years, and rarely used the center "Dot"
>> 99% of the time I never do.
>
>
>
> This tickles my curiousity - what, if anything at all, do you do 
> instead? Do you leave your primary uncollimated, perhaps feeling that 
> you've seen it all after 30+ years anyway? Or perhaps you only use 
> your telescope the remaining 1% of the time?
> ;-)
> N O
>
>
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