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collimate

Etymology: L, collineare, to align

to make parallel.

col·li·mate

(kol'i-māt)

To make parallel.

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Collimating a Schmidt-Cassegrain sounds tedious, but it gets easier with practice and the payoff is huge.

Collimating a Schmidt-Cassegrain: Follow these steps to get your telescope into perfect alignment

Caption: Collimating the main mirror requires removing a metal plate, then loosening three locking screws with an Allen wrench and turning the collimation screws with a Phillips-head screwdriver.

The Zhumell Z130: this remarkably inexpensive tabletop Dob is an outstanding performer

If you're collimating a Schmidt-Cassegrain, you can probably do the necessary adjustments to the secondary mirror yourself.

No-tools collimation: here's a simple method for aligning your telescope's optics without lasers or other gadgets

For collimating or shutdown of synchrotron radiation at 10 in the planning stage beamlines at DESY 24 piece drive unit requires two absorber jaws controlled drive to the photon beam.

Production and delivery of drive units for high performance absorber systems

Aperture-defined collimating devices serve this purpose, but the manual switching of aperture sizes slows the research process.

Automated x-ray aperture switching

I've been building and using telescopes for more than three decades, and I know from experience that collimating a Newtonian reflector is easy.

Easy reflector collimation: achieving precise optical alignment is neither difficult nor time consuming--provided you stay on course

The combination of fiber coupled lasers, common collimating components, and UV focusing objectives create a very modular, cost-effective solution for confocal microscopy.

How to simplify confocal microscopy

Once you've mastered collimation with a simple collimation cap, you can move up to a tool such as the Orion Collimating Telescope Eyepiece from Orion Telescopes & Binoculars.