Meade 60AZ-A2 To Move the Telescope, SUN Warning Never USE Your Telescope to Look AT the SUN

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TO MOVE THE TELESCOPE

Your telescope is altazimuth mounted. Altazimuth is just a complicated way of saying that your telescope moves up and down and from side to side. Other telescopes may be mounted in different ways.

1.Slightly loosen one of the star-shaped altitude control knobs (5). Loosening this knob allows you to move the telescope up and down.

2.Slightly loosen the horizontal lock knob

(6). Loosening this lock allows the telescope to be moved from side to side.

3.Once an object is found, re-tighten the control knobs. You can then use the slow motion control (16) to make smooth and precise movements as you can follow (or “track”) an object as it moves in the eyepiece.

SUN WARNING

NEVER USE YOUR 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 OR ITS VIEWFINDER AT OR NEAR THE SUN. DO NOT LOOK THROUGH THE TELESCOPE OR ITS VIEWFINDER AS IT IS MOVING. CHILDREN SHOULD ALWAYS HAVE ADULT SUPERVISION WHILE OBSERVING.

THE MOST IMPORTANT RULE

We have one very important rule that you should always follow when using your telescope:

Have Fun!

Have a good time when you’re observing. You may not know everything that there is to know about a telescope or what all the sights in the universe are, but that’s OK. Just point and observe at first.

You will enjoy your telescope even more as you learn more about it. But don’t be scared off by difficult terms 5 or complicated procedures. Don’t

panic! Just relax and enjoy your scope.

You will begin to grow and learn more about astronomy the more you observe. Go to the library and read some books about the stars and planets. Read about astronomers of old. Many of them had telescope no bigger than the one you are using right now. Galileo, who is one of the first astronomers to use a telescope, discovered four of the moons of Jupiter with a telescope about the same size as yours (and his didn’t even focus very well!).

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