Daniel makes me proud with his non-laser collimation process. Russell Porter is smiling down on him tonight from the heavens. He wrote that he's going to address the star-test so I won't go into that, other than to say that for years, I've star-tested in daylight using a real star- the sun. Some of you probably know exactly what I do- it's somewhat of a trick statement. Can you guess? A Cheshire is a good tool for rough alignment. I've made many on my mini-lathe from PVC & clear plexiglass. People need to remember that there is often such a thing as "good enough" in collimation. It depends on the f-ratio of your telescope, the atmospheric seeing, and your observing habits. A fast system (say, f/4) of long effective focal length (i.e., large aperture), used for imaging at high power or planetary viewing or very close double star splitting, should be collimated very precisely. But if you are mainly observing deep-sky objects at low to medium powers with wide-field eyepieces, collimation can be off by a surprising amount with no noticeable effects on the imagery. By a surprising amount I mean on the order of 3 millimeters instead of say, 0.5 millimeters.