AstroZap Artificial Star for Collimation - AZ-1600

Collimate your telescope any time; day or night, indoors or out! The Astrozap Artificial Star is designed to provide a steady, stable reference for telescope collimation. This easy to use device will allow you to collimate your equipment without the worry of star drift or seeing conditions.  The AstroZap Artificial Star generates a very bright point of light that is consistently bright.  It is produced by a 18,000 mcd ultra white LED that is focused on a 100 micro precision laser drilled stainless steel aperture.  The resulting light source will produce beautiful diffraction rings when defocused in any eyepiece. The AstroZap Artificial Star can be mounted on a table, or it can be attached to a standard photo tripod using the ¼-20 adaptor provided on the bottom of the unit. Bring your artificial star generator to a star party and provide a perfect point of light for everyone to tweak their collimation on before observing begins.  Your artificially generated star will never move, so the