Re: Celestron Binocular Collimation Help Needed!

From: Peter McKone ^lt;pmckone_at_No-Spam>
Date: Sun Jan 06 2008 - 10:02:49 MST

I have a similar problem. I see double in ALL binoculars. Me eyes need
collimation. Where is the screw for that?!

Peter

>From: Joe Lin ^lt;joelin02_at_gmail.com>
>Date: Sat Jan 05 2008 - 16:55:50 MST

>Hi Everyone
>I recently purchased the Celestron SkyMaster 15x70 Binoculars w/Tripod
>Adapter. They are avaiable from Amazon with solid reviews
>here<http://www.amazon.com/Celestron-SkyMaster-Binoculars-Tripod-Adapter/dp/B00008Y0VN>
>.
>Upon receiving them, I discovered that I am seeing double vision for objects
>at infinity or very far away. For closer objects at around 50-100 feet, my
>eyes can focus the two images together, but it is obvious that my eyes are
>doing some work to overlap them and the overall view does not appear as a
>single circular hole but rather overlapping circles such as
>this<http://images.artnet.com/artwork_images%5C112895%5C128090.jpg>
>.
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