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n. - The accurate adjustment of the line of sight of a telescope.

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  • E.g., the formation and collimation of jets is still quite unknown.
  • The replacement is a nice model from Astrosystems, which features four-point collimation adjustment.
  • This post was sawed off squarely on top so that the line of collimation of an engineer's transit set on it without
  • "A magnetic pulse of very high power seriously interfered with plasma collimation before the shutoff could respond," stated the computer.
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