TS collimating telescope for RC, Cassegrain and Dall-Kirkham telescscopes as well as Refractors

With the collimating telescope you can perfectly adjust your telescope within a few minutes.

With most adjustment tools, it is difficult to identify the individual elements that can be seen when looking into the telescope. This makes a systematic adjustment difficult and the adjustment time-consuming and inaccurate.

With the TS collimating telescope, these problems are a thing of the past: You focus on the element to be adjusted (e.g. secondary mirror) with the sliding focuser and are not distracted by the other components or reflections.

The integrated illumination, which has a 12V connection and brightness adjustment, makes it possible to adjust the telescope even in a bright environment.

Special Features of the TS collimation telescope

•  T2 thread on telescope side; adapters for M90 and M117 are available.
•  1.25" eyepiece mount and T2 thread on eyepiece side
•  Insertion or screwing of a camera possible
•  Insertion of an alignment laser possible
•  Suitable for adjusting refractors
•  To be able to focus on the objective with short focal length refractors, the adjustment telescope can be extended with ordinary T2 sleeves.
•  Two eyepieces are included in the scope of delivery.
•  The included eyepieces can also be used for observation.

Using an alignment laser

Especially with RC telescopes, the axis of the focuser thread should be adjusted correctly first. The commonly used method of looking only at the center mark of the secondary can lead to deterioration of the adjustment.

A laser is used for this adjustment.

With other collimation aids, it is necessary to switch between the laser and the collimation device. In contrast, the laser can be connected directly to the TS collimating telescope.

A camera can be inserted into the 1.25" connector of the TS collimating telescope instead of the eyepiece. If you collimate your telescope without focuser, i.e. with directly screwed collimating telescope, a camera must always be connected to the 1.25" clamp, because for focusing there must be a possibility of moving the camera.

If you collimate with the focuser in place, you can also use the T2 thread to mount the camera. Depending on the backfocus of the camera, it may be necessary to remove one of the two T2 rings.

Adjustment of smaller RC telescopes

For RC telescopes with six and eight inch aperture, the circumferential light gap (gap between the baffle tubes) is mostly used for adjusting the main mirror. In newer telescopes, this gap is no longer visible, so this adjustment reference is missing. Alternatively, the brackets of the secondary mirror spider can be used; however, these are difficult to see, which makes the adjustment result inaccurate. With the TS collimating telescope, you can see these brackets significantly magnified and easily adjust the telescope.

Adjusting refractors

Thanks to th bright integrated illumination, refractors can also be adjusted without any problems. The different colored (depending on the coating) and different sized ring-shaped reflections on the surfaces can be highlighted or dimmed via the sliding focus adjustment.

To adjust refractors with a short focal length, it may be necessary to extend the focus adjustment range of the collimating telescope. Commercially available T2 extension sleeves can be used for this purpose.

The TS collimating telescope has no parts that can become misaligned. Therefore, checking and adjusting is not necessary.

Eyepieces for two magnifications

You can use the included eyepieces according to your requirement on the adjustment telescope, but also for observation. Basically, any eyepiece that has a standard 1.25" filter thread on the body can be used in the collimating telescope. However, we cannot guarantee that every combination will lead to a perfect adjustment result.

User´s Manual

Check documentation link at the top of description

In The Box:

•  Adjusting telescope with 15 mm eyepiece
•  25 mm eyepiece
•  Brightness controller

Features

• Connection telescope side: T2 male thread
• Connection eyepiece/camera side: 1.25" and T2 male thread
• Magnification: 4x and 6.6x
• Power supply connection: Hollow plug 2.1/5.5 mm
• Operating voltage: 12V