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C11 Mechanical Alignment & Collimation

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The casting was drilled to make access holes to insert Allen keys and tilt the primary. Hex bolts work best in the dark. You can always 'feel' your way in opposed to Phillips screw drivers profiles or others.
In the end it has to be dead simple and practical or it's useless in the field.

As a result of the thickness of the tilt mechanism the primary position was moved roughly 30mm towards the corrector.
To be able to still reach the ideal spacing of 437mm between secondary and primary at focus point the tube had to be longer. A new CF tube was manufactured making the C11 a little longer than the standard ones.

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