On Fri, 20 Aug 1999 18:37:22 +0200, you,

>I recently ordered a 8" LX200 and since I am living in Germany I know,
>that the scope will have quite a journey behind it when it arrives at my
>home.
>
>Therefore I want to make sure that the optics and the scope will work as
>intended. My question is, what basic tests can I do with the scope to
>ensure that the optics are still ok and not misaligned?

I just received an 8" LX-200 scope that was brought to me from the USA
as plane luggage: it was fully off collimation so I had to
re-collimate it, using standard procedures as explaines in the
documentation and also in textbooks. This took me 5 minutes. I have
not run other optical tests yet.


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