Meade 60AZ-A2 manual

TELEST AR INSTRUCTION MANUAL 60mm | 2.4" Altazimuth Refracting T elescope 60AZ-A2 www .meade.com 40-04135 8 Page Manual Template 6/29/05 10:54 AM Page 1[...]

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1 INTRODUCTION Y our telesc ope is an exc ellent beginner’ s instrument, and is designed to observe objects in the sky and also on land. It can be your personal window on the univ erse or allows y ou to intimately study the behavior of nesting bir ds on a distant hillside. The tel escope is shipped with the foll owing parts: • Optical tube • [...]

FIGURE 1 Figur e 1 : T elest ar 60AZ-A2 Altazimuth Refracting T elescope Inset A : Acc essory T ray Mounting Bolt Hole Inset B : T ripod Leg Inset C : Viewfinder Assembly 1. Eyepiece 2. Viewfinder (see Inset C) 3. Viewfinder alignment scre ws (see Inset C) 4. Optical tube assembl y 5. V ertical lock knobs 6. Horizontal lock knob 7. T ripod legs 8. [...]

Fig. 3 Fig. 2 ASSEMBLE YOUR TRIPOD The tripod is the basic support for y our tel escope. Its height may be adjusted so that you can view c omfortabl y . N N o o t t e e : : N N u u m m b b e e r r i i n n b b r r a a c c k k e e t t s s , , e e . . g g . . , , ( ( 3 3 ) ) , , r r e e f f e e r r t t o o F F i i g g . . 1 1 . . 1. Make sur e that as[...]

Fig. 4 onto two bolts on the optical tube. Remove the thumbscr ews fr om the tube. 2. Line up the two holes on the viewfinder brack et over the two bolts. Slide the brack et over the bolts. See Fig. 1, inset C . 3. Replace the thumbscr ews onto the bolts and tighten to a firm f eel. A TT ACH THE DIAGONAL MIRROR AND EYEPIECE The diagonal mirr or ref[...]

TO MO VE THE TELESCOPE Y our telesc ope is altazimuth mounted. Altazimuth is just a c omplicated way of saying that your tel escope moves up and down and fr om side to side. Other tel escopes may be mounted in differ ent ways. 1. Slightly l oosen one of the star-shaped altitude contr ol knobs (5). Loosening this knob allows y ou to move the tel esc[...]

OBSERVING Observe during the daytime : T ry out your tel escope during the daytime at first. It is easier to l earn how it operates and how to observ e when it is light. Pick out an easy object to observe : A distant mountain, a lar ge tree, a lighthouse or skyscraper mak e excell ent tar gets. Point the optical tube so it lines up with your object[...]

Spend sever al nights observing the Moon. Some nights, the Moon is so bright that it makes other objects in the sky difficult to see. These ar e nights that are ex cell ent for lunar observation. Observe the Solar System : After observing the Moon, you ar e ready t o step up to the next l evel of observation, the planets. Ther e ar e four planets t[...]

Any small tel escope can see the four Galilean moons of Jupit er ( Fig. 5 ), plus a few other s, but how many moons does Jupiter actuall y have? No one knows for sur e! Nor ar e we sur e how many Saturn has either . At last count, Jupiter had o ver 60 moons, and held a small lead o ver Saturn. Most of these moons ar e very small and can only be see[...]

gr ouping of stars, containing millions or even billions of s tars. Some galaxies form a spiral (lik e our galaxy, the Milky Way) and other galaxies look mor e like a lar ge football and ar e called elliptical galaxies. Ther e are many galaxies that ar e irregularl y shaped and ar e thought to have been pulled apart because they pas sed too close t[...]

Fig. 6 Changing eyepiec es changes the power or magnification of your tel escope. By the way, you might have notic ed something strange when y ou looked thr ough your ey epiece. Although the image is right- side up, it is r eversed. That means r eading wor ds can be a probl em. But it has no affect on astr onomical objects. If you wish to have a fu[...]

tracks). Viewing fr om the upper floors of a building may also cause image mov ement. Let your ey es “dark-adapt”: Allow fiv e or ten minutes f or your eyes to bec ome “dark adapted” befor e observing. Use a red- filter ed flashlight to prot ect your night vision when r eading star maps, or inspecting the tel escope. Do not use use a regula[...]

What do the specifications mean? Optical tube f ocal length is simpl y a measur ement of the length of the optical tube. In other wor ds, this is the distanc e light travels in the tel e- scope bef ore being br ought to focus in you eyepiec e. Y our tube is 700mm long. Objective l ens diameter is how big the lens is on your scope. T elescopes ar e [...]

Eyepiece’ s magnification x 2 = Magnification with a 2X Barl ow lens Y our 25mm low-power e yepiece magnifies an object 28 times. Multiply 28 by 2 and y ou get 56 times magnification with your Barl ow . It’ s worth repeating : Keep in mind that a bright, clear, but small er image is more inter esting than a lar ger, dimmer, fuzzy one. Using too[...]

Contact your Meade Deal er or see the Meade catal og for mor e information. Visit us on the web at: www .meade.com. MEADE CUSTOMER SERVICE If you have a ques tion concerning your tel escope, call Meade Instruments Cust omer Service Department at (800) 626-3233. Customer Servic e hours are 8:00A M to 5:00P M , Pacific Time, Monday thr ough F riday .[...]

OBSERVER: OBJEC T NAME: DA TE & TIME OBSERVED: CONSTELLA TION: EYEPIECE SIZE: SEEING CONDITIONS: EXCELLENT GOOD POOR NOTES: DRAWING OF IMA GE (SAVE ORIGINAL - BE SURE T O MAKE COPIES) OBSERV A TION LOG 40-04135 8 Page Manual Template 6/29/05 10:54 AM Page 17[...]

OBSERVER: OBJEC T NAME: DA TE & TIME OBSERVED: CONSTELLA TION: EYEPIECE SIZE: SEEING CONDITIONS: EXCELLENT GOOD POOR NOTES: DRAWING OF IMA GE OBSERV A TION LOG 40-04135 8 Page Manual Template 6/29/05 10:55 AM Page 18[...]

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