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Product no.: 80290

Electronic collimator OCAL V3.0 MAX

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Product description

Ocal electronic collimator- the new, completely revolutionary telescope collimator!

The all-new and revolutionary collimator for your telescope. Ideal for the collimation of short focal length astrophotography optical systems, and highly sensitive cameras with extremely small pixels. These systems require very precise telescope alignment.
The Ocal collimator is an innovative tool that facilitates alignment in a completely new way.
Every Ocal collimator has an internal motor that moves the chip linearly. The software can be used to accurately adjust the focus during the individual alignment steps. You can align every element of the telescope without affecting the set-up or the imaging chain. Coloured centring circles can be selected and adjusted using the accompanying software. The software also controls the thickness of the circles' outline as well as the contrast and exposure of the live recording. Finally, a crosshair can be activated and rotated by the software. Thus, all the elements that require collimation can be focused and concentrically, and very precisely, aligned. The crosshair can also be used to assess the exact linear orientation of the secondary mirror spider.

Every collimator is checked by our supplier before delivery, after which, each OCAL receives an inspection seal. Please do not remove this seal!

Specifications

Capacity


Connection (to the telescope)
T2 (M42 x 0,75)
Supported operating systems
Windows 7+, Android
Appropriate for telescopes
Newton, SC & RC

General


Type
Alignment accessories
Type of build
Collimators
Weight (g)
134
noctutec Electronic collimator OCAL V3.0 MAX
Scope of delivery

Customer reviews

Works fine

Review by L. F. on 10.07.2024 11:56:58

( 5 / 5 )

After collimation with a classical collimating eyepiece or a carefully adjusted justir laser, I use it to check for the finest defects. It works very well.

Avoid - does not collimate sct or maks..

Review by V. R. on 04.04.2024 07:29:29

( 1 / 5 )

There are plenty of youtube videos with old versions of ocal that show great quality.

This new version is unusable. Everything is pitch black, you cannot see the edges of telescope inside, gain, brightness, the camera chip inside (like they show pictures in the manual.pdf) you cant see with this new one!

If you think ocal2 was good and this will be amazing then no, this is worse than ocal2. Waste of money :(

The support doesnt answer questions, only one question at a time. They write one sentence emails.

P.S. I will change this review if they decide to fix it. For now, avoid, that is the only way to hope for this product improvement.

Response on this review by our expert Ulrich Zehndbauer

on 24.04.2024 11:11:58

Dear customer,
we have a lot of satisfied customers of the ocal V 3.0, you probably received a defective item.
Please contact our customer service and we will find a solution.
Your team Astroshop

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