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MEADE INSTRUCTION MANUAL 70mm | 2.8" Altazimuth Refracting T elescope 70AZ-AR www .meade.com Tel70AZAR_5 3/28/07 10:09 AM Page 1.
WARNING! Never use a Meade ® Telescope to look at the Sun! Looking at or near t he Sun will cause instant and irrev ersible damage to y our e y e. Ey e damage is of ten painless, so t here is no w arning to t he obser v er t hat damage has occurred until it is too lat e.
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.
Figur e 1 : Meade 70AZ-AR Altazimuth Refracting T el escope Inset A : Acc essory T ray Mounting Bolt Hole Inset B : T ripod Leg Inset C : Viewfinder Assembly FIGURE 1 1. Eyepiece 2. Red dot viewfinder (see Inset C) 3. Red dot viewfinder alignment scre ws (see Inset C) 4.
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 omfortably . 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 .
2. Line up the two holes on the r ed dot 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.
S S U U N N W W A A R R N N I I N N G G N N E E V V E E R R U U S S E E Y Y O O U U R R T T E E L L E E S S C C O O P P E E T T O O L L O O O O K K A A T T T T H H E E S S U U N N ! ! L OOKING AT OR NEAR THE SUN WILL C AUSE INST ANT AND IRREVERSIBLE DAMAGE T O YOUR EYE.
OBSERVING O O b b s s e e r r v v e e d d u u r r i i n n g g t t h h e e d d a a y y t t i i m m e e : : T ry out your tel escope during the daytime at first.
Meade as an optional acc essory and enhance c ontrast t o impr ove your observation of lunar f eatur es. Spend several 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 ar e excell ent for lunar observation.
may not see many featur es on the surfac e of Saturn, its ring structur e will steal your br eath away . Y ou will probabl y 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 c an be seen with a small tel escope.
differ ent col ors? Does one seem brighter than the other? Almost all the star s you can see in the sky ar e part of our galaxy . A galaxy is a large gr ouping of stars, containing millions or even billions of s tars.
Fig. 6 using the 25mm low-pow er eyepiec e. The 25mm eyepiec e delivers a bright, wide field of view and is the best to use for mos t viewing conditions. Use the high-power 9mm eyepiec e to view details when observing the Moon and planets. If the image become fuzzy, switch back down t o a low er power .
tel escope so that the object to be viewed is again placed at the edge of the field, r eady to be further observed. Vibrations : Av oid touching the eyepiece while observing thr ough the telescope. Vibrations r esulting from such c ontact will cause the image to mo ve.
Astronomy and Sky and Telescope magazines. HA VE A GOOD TIME, ASTRONOMY IS FUN! SPECIFICA TIONS Optical tube f ocal length 700mm Objective l ens diameter 70mm(2.8") F ocal ratio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . f/10 Mounting type . . . . . . . . . . .
Let’ s say that you have obtained a 13mm eyepiec e. Y ou can tell that what the f ocal length of y our eyepiece is as it is al ways printed on the side of an eyepiec e. Divide: 700 ÷ 13, which equals 53.8. Round this off to the near est whole number and y our new eyepiec e magnifies objects 54 times.
during terr estrial observing #126 Barlow l ens (1.25 0.0.) doubles the magnification of any ey epiece. Additional Eyepiec es (1.25" barr el diameter): F or higher or lower magnifications with the tel escopes that acc ommodate 1.
br each of this warranty . Any implied warranties which cannot be disclaimed ar e hereby limited to a t erm of one year fr om the date of original retail pur chase. This warranty gives y ou specific rights. Y ou may have other rights which vary fr om state to state.
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