Title: Lost collimation hard to recollimate
Product review: While most features are good for the price, this scope has a fatal flaw for long-term use. My biggest complaint is that, while they are shipped factory collimated, mine lost collimation after just two years. It being a "Newtonian", I bought a laser collimator. However, this is not really a traditional Newtonian -- it has a glass lens mounted internally within the focusing tube that apparently compensates for the shortened tube length. So the laser collimator didn't work with it and only led the collimation to be worse, not better. Now I have a hopelessly uncollimated telescope with a dim and distorted image. I can't recommend this and suggest getting the only slightly higher priced Meade that has the full-length Newtonian tube.
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