User manual ORION TELESCOPES & BINOCULARS TRANSPORTER MINEQ NEW

[. . . ] INSTRUCTION MANUAL Orion Transporter 70 Min-EQTM ® #9859 Tabletop Equatorial Refracting Telescope Customer Support (800) 676-1343 E-mail: support@telescope. com Corporate Offices (831) 763-7000 Providing Exceptional Consumer Optical Products Since 1975 P. O. A 06/02 EZ Finder II reflex sight Eyepiece Declination lock knob Declination setting circle Star diagonal Declination slow motion control cable Counterweight shaft Counterweight Counterweight lock knob R. A. slow motion control cable Azimuth lock knob Latitude adjustment T-bolt Tripod leg Figure 1. The Transporter 70 Min-EQ. 2 Congratulations on your purchase of an Orion telescope. [. . . ] So, the coordinates for the Orion Nebula listed in a star atlas will look like this: R. A. -5° 27' That's 5 hours and 35. 4 minutes in right ascension, and -5 degrees and 27 arc-minutes in declination (there are 60 arcminutes in 1 degree of declination). Before you can use the setting circles to locate objects, the mount must be correctly polar aligned, and the R. A. setting circle has been permanently calibrated at the factory, and should read 90° whenever the telescope optical tube is parallel with the R. A. lock knobs on the equatorial mount, so the telescope optical tube can move freely. Center the star in the telescope's field of view with the slow-motion control cables. Finding Objects With the Setting Circles Now that both setting circles are calibrated, look up in a star atlas the coordinates of an object you wish to view. setting circle are positive when the telescope is pointing north of the celestial equator (Dec. = 0°), and negative when the telescope is pointing south of the celestial equator. value from the star atlas matches the reading on 7 Figure 6a Figure 6b Figure 6c Figure 6d Figure 6a, b, c, d. This illustration shows the telescope pointed in the four cardinal directions: (a) North, (b) South, (c) East, (d) West. Note that the tripod and mount have not been moved; only the telescope tube has been moved on the R. A. Most setting circles are not accurate enough to put an object dead-center in the telescope's eyepiece, but they should place the object somewhere within the field of view of the EZ Finder II, assuming the equatorial mount is accurately polar aligned. Use the slow-motion controls to center the object in the EZ Finder II, and it should appear in the telescope's field of view. setting circle must be re-calibrated every time you wish to locate a new object. Do so by calibrating the setting circle for the centered object before moving on to the next one. Beginners occasionally experience some confusion about how to point the telescope overhead or in other directions. In Figure 1 the telescope is pointed north, as it would be during polar alignment. But it will not look like that when the telescope is pointed in other directions. Let's say you want to view an object that is directly overhead, at the zenith. One thing you DO NOT do is make any adjustment to the latitude adjustment T-bolt. Remember, once the mount is polar aligned, the telescope should be moved only on the R. A. [. . . ] The entire telescope, including the optical tube and Min-EQ mount, will fit in the provided soft carry case. The Stars 10 To use the carrying case, you need to disassemble the mount. Once disassembled, place the counterweight shaft and telescope legs at the very bottom of the carry case, underneath the case's padded "floor". The mount itself is secured to the padded "floor" with the cloth velcro straps. [. . . ]