www.meade.com MEADE INSTRUCTION MANUAL 60mm | 2.4” Alt-azimuth Refracting Telescope 70mm | 2.
WARNING! Never use a Meade® telescope to look at the Sun! Looking at or near the Sun will cause instant and irreversible damage to your eye. Eye damage is often painless, so there is no warning to the observer that damage has occurred until it is too late. Do not point the telescope at or near the Sun. Do not look through the telescope or viewfinder as it is moving. Children should always have adult supervision while observing.
INTRODUCTION Your telescope is an excellent beginner’s instrument, and is designed to observe objects in the sky and also on land. It can be your personal window on the universe or allows you to intimately study the behavior of nesting birds on a distant hillside. The telescope is shipped with the following parts: • Optical tube • Aluminum tripod with accessory tray • Two 1.
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SETTING UP YOUR TRIPOD The tripod is the basic support for your telescope and comes pre-assembled from the factory; except for the accessory tray. The tripod height may be adjusted so that you can view comfortably. Note: Number in brackets, e.g., (3), refer to the item numbers in Fig. 1. 1. To setup the tripod, spread the legs out evenly and place it on a solid surface. 2. Set the height of your tripod: a. Rotate and loosen the leg lock thumbscrew (20) to unlock the leg lock. b.
1. Slide the diagonal mirror (13) into the focuser drawtube (15). 4 2. Tighten the drawtube thumbscrew to hold the diagonal mirror securely. 3. Slide the MA 26mm eyepiece (1) into diagonal mirror. 4. Tighten the diagonal mirror thumbscrew to hold the eyepiece securely. 2. ALIGN THE VIEWFINDER Perform the first part of this procedure during the daytime and the last step at night. 1. Point the telescope at an easy- 3. Fig. 3 place tube between forks lock knob slide rod through hole lock knob 4. 5.
SUN WARNING motion control (16) to make smooth and precise movements as you can follow NEVER USE YOUR TELESCOPE (or “track”) an object vertically as it moves TO LOOK AT THE SUN! in the eyepiece. LOOKING AT OR NEAR THE SUN WILL CAUSE 4. To use the slow motion control feature(16) aim the telescope at an object and tighten INSTANT AND IRREVERSIBLE DAMAGE TO YOUR EYE. EYE DAMAGE IS OFTEN PAINLESS, SO the control knobs(5).
Use the viewfinder: If you have not so, align the viewfinder (2) 6 done with the telescope’s eyepiece (1) as described earlier. Look through the viewfinder until you can see the object. It will be easier to locate an object using the viewfinder rather than locating with the eyepiece. Line up the object using the viewfinders crosshair. Look through the eyepiece: Once you have the object lined up in the viewfinder, look through the optical tube’s eyepiece.
a solar system. Our Sun, by the way, is a single, yellow dwarf star. It is average as far as stars go and is a middle aged star. Beyond the planets are clouds of comets, icy planetoids and other debris left over from the birth of our sun. Recently astronomers have found large objects in this area and they may increase the number of planets in our solar system. The four planets closest to the Sun are rocky and are called the inner planets. Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars comprise the inner planets.
8 you may not see many features on the surface of Saturn, its ring structure will steal your breath away. You will probably be able to see a black opening in the rings, known as the Cassini band. Saturn is not the only planet that has rings, but it is the only set of rings that can be seen with a small telescope. Jupiter’s rings cannot be seen from Earth at all—the Voyager spacecraft discovered the ring after it passed Jupiter and looked back at it.
They will appear as small, fuzzy clouds. Only very large telescope will reveal spiral or elliptical details. You will also be able to see some nebulas with your scope. Nebula means cloud. Most nebulas are clouds of gas. The two easiest to see in the Northern Hemisphere are the Orion nebula during the winter and the Triffid nebula during the summer. These are large clouds of gas in which new stars are being born. Some nebulas are the remains of stars exploding. These explosions are called supernovas.
Meade offers a complete line of eyepieces and Barlows for your telescope. 10 Most astronomers have four or five low-power and high power eyepieces to view different objects and to cope with different viewing conditions. Objects move in the eyepiece: If you are observing an astronomical object (the Moon, a planet, star, etc.) you will notice that the object will begin to move slowly through the telescopic field of view.
Using too high a power eyepiece is one of the most common mistakes made by new astronomers. Dress Warm: Even on summer nights, the air can feel cool or cold as the night wears on. It is important to dress warm or to have a sweater, jacket, gloves, etc., nearby. length. HAVE A GOOD TIME, ASTRONOMY IS FUN! SPECIFICATIONS Infinity 60 model: Objective lens diameter Optical tube focal length Focal ratio Mounting type Viewfinder 60mm(2.4”) 800mm f/13.
exposure. f/5 is faster than f/10. The faster the ratio, the faster exposure time 12 is needed when a camera is hooked up to the telescope. Your telescope has slower focal ratio at f/8.5. Sometimes, astronomers use focal reducers to make slow exposure telescopes have faster focal ratios. Alt-azimuth mounting simply means your telescope moves up and down (altitude or “alt”), and side to side, (azimuth or “az”). Other mounting configurations are available for other telescopes, such as equatorial mounting.
often the best view is with lower magnification value! TAKING CARE OF YOUR TELESCOPE Your telescope is a precision optical instrument designed for a lifetime of rewarding viewing. It will rarely, if ever, require factory servicing or maintenance. Follow these guidelines to keep your telescope in the best condition: • Avoid cleaning the telescope’s lenses. A little dust on the front surface of the telescope’s correcting lens will not cause loss of image quality.
available in a wide variety of sizes, provide a high level of image resolution and color correction at an economical price. Contact your Meade Dealer or see the Meade catalog for more information. Visit us on the web at www.meade.com. 14 MEADE CONSUMER SOLUTIONS If you have a question concerning your telescope, call Meade Instruments Consumer Solutions Department at (800) 626-3233. Consumer Solutions Department hours are 7:00AM to 5:00PM, Pacific Time, Monday through Friday.
MEADE LIMITED WARRANTY Every Meade telescope and telescope accessory is warranted by Meade Instruments Corp (“Meade”) to be free of defects in materials and workmanship for a period of TWO YEARS from the date of original purchase in the U.S.A. Meade will repair or replace a product, or part thereof, found by Meade to be defective, provided the defective part is returned to Meade, freight-prepaid, with proof of purchase. This warranty applies to the original purchaser only and is non-transferable.
OBSERVATION LOG OBSERVER: OBJECT NAME: DATE & TIME OBSERVED: CONSTELLATION: EYEPIECE SIZE: SEEING CONDITIONS: EXCELLENT GOOD POOR NOTES: DRAWING OF IMAGE photocopy this page
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