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> Yes, of course.
> This picture could be used in a beginner's
> textbook to explain what is "collimation error":-)
> Modern sextant scopes (for the reasons that excape me)
> do not have collimation error adjustment,
> with one exception: the inverting scope of SNO-T.
> Once Bill suggested to adjust collimation error
> with a hammer...
Alex
Hoisted on my own petard.
For the record, the suggestion was tongue-in-cheek. The "bigger-hammer"
school of impact adjustment, AKA, "If it doesn't go, force it. It it
breaks, it needed replacement anyway."
Personally, I do not subscribe to that theory past a rubber mallet with the
point of impact broadened by worn underwear.
Bill
