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CAUTION! Viewing the sun can cause permanent eye damage.
Do not view the sun with this telescope or even with the naked eye.
BALANCING YOUR TELESCOPE
Precise controls were built into your equatorial mount to hold the telescope
steady. When viewing at high magnifications, even a slight breeze vibrating the
body can impair your ability to see detail. So to stack the cards on your side as
much as possible against the limitations of nature, it is important to balance your
telescope .
1. Level tripod by adjusting legs.
2. Loosen polar axis clamp and adjust polar axis to correspond to your observing
latitude. If you do not know your latitude, consult a map or atlas. Retighten clamp
screw.
TELESCOPE ASSEMBLY INSTRUCTIONS
1. Remove the three tripod legs (U) from the box. To attach tripod legs to tripod
head (N) align the holes of the tripod legs with those of the equatorial mount.
Secure each leg by inserting a large (3”) bolt with washer into the hole and secure
with a wing nut and washer. Tighten bolts (Figs. 1 & 2).
2. Stand tripod and spread legs. Loosen the adjusting lock on each leg. Grab the
equatorial mount
and lift. Extend the tripod legs to the desired height (at equal lengths). In addition,
tighten each leg’s adjusting locks to hold them in position (Figs. 3 & 4).
3. Remove telescope main body (J), counterweight (R), counterweight rod (S),
and the two flexible control cables (A) from the box. Carefully rest the telescope
main body tube in the cradle (Fig. 7) Be sure the cradle is positioned at the center
of the telescope main body tube for proper balancing. Tighten the cradle locking
knobs (Fig. 8). Attach the control cables (Fig. 13) to the declination (P) and hour
axis (Q) cable studs. Loosen counterweight clamping screw (Fig. 11). Slide
weight into rod. Thread counterweight rod into the threaded hole located below
the declination axis (Fig. 11).
4. Remove the finderscope with finderscope bracket (H) attached from the box.
Position the finderscope bracket on the telescope main body (Fig. 6).
5.Insert the eyepiece (Fig. 10) into the focus tube. Secure by tightening small
retaining screw. When using the Barlow tube, Insert eyepiece into open end of
Barlow and secure (Fig. 12).
The telescope is now fully assembled and ready for use.
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