And have a whole lot of Liquid Nails bonding them to the frame so they can never come off. The screws are probably not necessary, but we decided to put them in just in case of a nuclear detonation in the vicinity of the telescope. Hey, you never know. From the secondary status window you can view the secondary mirror. The secondary mirror may look very large, but we assure you that it doesn t affect the optics in the slightest.
Light just passes right through it.
You can not see it as a large black blob when it is light out while trying to look at the moon or something. And we did not use it because we know very little about optics and did a really poor job on the whole optics system. We used it because it was a very high-quality piece of glass and aluminum, and not because it was free. With that said, you can see that it is adjustable by a series of threaded rods and nuts. Don t adjust it.