Orion 13022 instruction manual Assembly, Mounting the Deluxe Mini Guide Scope

	Guide scope
Rubber	thumbscrews (x3)
				Focus
O-ring
		Focus lock		adjustment
		thumbscrew		ring
				Camera/
				eyepiece
				thumbscrews
	Dovetail			T-threads
	bracket
		Dovetail foot
		8-32 x 5/8" screws
			8-32 x 5/8"
			screws with nuts

Adapter plate

Dovetail base

(shoe)1/4"-20 x 1"1/4"-20 x 1/2" socket screw

socket screw

Figure 1. The Deluxe Mini 50mm Guide Scope with Helical Focuser and included components

Congratulations on your purchase of the Orion Deluxe Mini 50mm Guide Scope with Helical Focuser. It’s a wonderfully versatile, compact, and lightweight guide scope designed for use with the Orion StarShoot AutoGuider, Orion StarShoot Planetary Imager & AutoGuider, or similar small-chip CCD cameras. It’s ideal for guiding long-exposure astrophotographs with short to medium focal length telescopes up to about 1500mm focal length. This deluxe model features a machined, “non-rotating” helical focuser that enables the user to quickly achieve sharp focus of guide stars with your autoguiding camera. The guide scope’s

Parts List

150mm guide scope optical tube with precision helical focuser

1Dovetail finder scope bracket, aluminum

1Dovetail base (shoe), aluminum

2#8-32 x 3/8" Phillips head screws, and 2 hex nuts

2#8-32 x 5/8" Phillips head screws

1Adapter plate

1Socket head screw, ¼"-20 x 1"

1Socket head screw, ¼"-20 x 1/2"

Assembly

The Deluxe Mini 50mm Guide Scope with Helical Focuser (DMGS) comes fully assembled and mounted in the dovetail bracket. Refer to Figure 1 to familiarize yourself with the features and parts of the guide scope.

Mounting the Deluxe Mini Guide Scope

The DMGS’s mounting bracket has a dovetail foot that fits the Orion dovetail finder scope base included on many Orion telescopes. The guide scope also comes with a separate dovetail base, or shoe (Orion part #7214), with two #8-32 x 3/8" flat Phillips-head screws and two hex nuts, for custom installations.

a.

b.

Figure 2. a) The dovetail shoe threads into the adapter plate with two screws.

b)The adapter plate attaches to an optional dovetail bar with one of the included socket head cap screws.

bright, wide-field optics serve up lots of potential guide stars on your autogu- ider’s CCD sensor, and it’s small enough to stash in an accessory case! What’s more, this scope can also function as a 50mm illuminated finder scope, with the addition of the optional #8450 Orion 12.5mm Illuminated Plössl eyepiece!

WARNING: Never look directly at the Sun through your telescope or its finder scope – even for an instant – without a professionally made solar filter that com- pletely covers the front of the instrument, or permanent eye damage could result. Young children should use this telescope only with adult supervision.

To mount the DMGS on a dovetail plate such as Orion’s Wide or Narrow Universal mounting plates, or similar plates produced under other brand names, we’ve included an adapter plate that makes it easy (Figure 1). The DMGS can then be piggybacked on top of your main instrument’s tube rings, or on a side- by-side plate, for autoguiding.

On the adapter plate there are three threaded holes. The two outer holes are for attaching the dovetail base to the adapter plate using the two included #8-32 x 5/8" Phillips head screws (Figure 2a). (These are the longer of the four #8-32 screws.) Once the dovetail base is securely attached, you can mount the adapter

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