Collimation Circles, app for easy telescope collimation

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Collimation Circles, app for easy telescope collimation

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Hi, I'm the author of the Collimation Circles application. It is free and open source.
Collimation Circles application is EAC (Electronically Asisted Collimation) tool to achive perfect or near perfect telescope collimation.
Here are some useful links for you to get started:

I hope you will find it useful. Thank you!

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It looks good, might use it to grind out any focuser tilt on my sct
scopes :gso/bintel f4 12"truss tube, bresser messier ar127s /skywatcher 10'' dob,meade 12'' f10 lx200 sct
cameras : asi 1600mm-c/asi1600mm-c,asi120mc,prostar lp guidecam, nikkon d60, sony a7,asi 290 mm
mounts : eq6 pro/eq8/mesu 200 v2
filters : 2'' astronomik lp/badder lrgb h-a,sII,oIII,h-b,Baader Solar Continuum, chroma 3nm ha,sii,oiii,nii,rgb,lowglow,uv/ir,Thousand Oaks Solar Filter,1.25'' #47 violet,pro planet 742 ir,pro planet 807 ir,pro planet 642 bp ir.
extras : skywatcher f4 aplanatic cc, Baader MPCC MKIII Coma Corrector,Orion Field Flattener,zwo 1.25''adc.starlight maxi 2" 9x filter wheel,tele vue 2x barlow .

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Thanks very useful
Reflectors GSO 200 Dobs
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SCT C5 on a SLT mount
Mak 150 Bosma on a EQ5
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I very happy to anounce, that new version of Colimation Circles 3.1.0 is awailable.

You can download it here: http://bit.ly/42yJ3BO

Whats new:
Added UVC and Raspberry Pi camera support by @sajmons in #17
Fix for issue #15 when saving JSON file if UI language is not English app crashes by @sajmons in #16

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I wrote series of articles about advanced newtonian collimation and how it's done with Collimation Circles application.

All three parts are available here:
I hope you will find it usefull.
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