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4. Start using your Omegon® 90/1000 EQ-2 telescope.
Point the telescope to a distant object
during the day. It is important to do this during daylight, so that you get familiarized with the
telescope operation. A good target is a church tower, a chimney or a distant mountain peak.
Make an eyepiece and diagonal are installed and securely fixed. Rotate the focuser knob, so that the
focuser tube moves in and out. Do this slowly. We suggest that you start by racking the focuser all
the way in and slowly move it out. With the PLössl 25mm eyepiece you should be able to get a
focused (sharp) image easily. For night use we suggest starting with an easy object. The Moon is a
big object easy to point at and train telescope pointing. We suggest to use the Moon as a first target
before going to explore other more difficult objects like galaxies or nebulae.
5. The Finderscope.
Before we mentioned the finderscope as a valuable tool to point the telescope at an object. To use
the telescope properly, the telescope and the finderscope must be aligned. The image obtained
through the finderscope has a much broader field of view than that of the telescope. The
finderscope acts as an aiming device to the telescope. Even to point to the Moon it is necessary for
the finderscope to be accurately aligned with the telescope. Please take a look on how the
finderscope works in the next pages.
Figure 8. Tube placement.
Figure 9. Install the supplied accessories.
Figure 10. Balance the telescope tube R.A. axis.
Figure 11. Balance the telescope tube Dec. axis.
