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TELESTAR INSTRUCTION MANUAL
60mm | 2.4" Altazimuth Refracting Telescope
RB-60
www.meade.com
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Telestar RB-60.qxd 4/11/06 2:04 PM Page 3 INTRODUCTION Your telescope is an excellent beginner’s Setting up your telescope involves these 1 instrument, and is designed to observe simple steps: objects in the sky and also on land. It can be • Assemble your tripod your personal window on the universe or • Attach the accessory tray allows you to intimately study the behavior of • Attach the optical tube to the mount nesting birds on a distant hillside. • Attach the red dot viewfinder • At
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Telestar RB-60.qxd 4/11/06 2:04 PM Page 4 Inset A Figure 1: Telestar RB-60 Altazimuth Refracting Telescope FIGURE 1 Inset A: Red Dot Viewfinder Assembly 2 Inset B: Tripod Legs and Accessory Tray Inset C: Altaz or Altazimuth Mount 1. Eyepiece 2. Red dot viewfinder (see Inset A) 3. Red dot viewfinder alignment screws (see Inset A) 4. Optical tube assembly 5. Vertical locking lever Inset B 6. Horizontal lock knob 7. Tripod legs 8. Leg brace supports (See Inset C) 9. Leg brace (See
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Telestar RB-60.qxd 4/11/06 2:04 PM Page 5 Fig. 3 2. Rotate the tray, until the corners of the ASSEMBLE YOUR TRIPOD tray "click" into place. The tripod is the basic support for your 3 telescope. Adjust the height of the tripod so ATTACH THE MOUNT TO THE TRIPOD that you can view comfortably. Fig. 2 1. Unlock the leg lock (20). 1. Slide the center post of the mount into 2. Slide the leg in or out to the desired the center hole on top length. ATTACH THE RED DOT VIEWFINDER of
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Telestar RB-60.qxd 4/11/06 2:04 PM Page 6 2. Look through the red dot viewfinder. Turn movements as you follow (or “track”) an ATTACH THE DIAGONAL MIRROR one or more of the viewfinder’s alignment object as it moves in the eyepiece. AND EYEPIECE 4 screws (3) until the red dot is precisely The diagonal mirror reflects the light over the same object as you centered in from the optical tube to a more THE MOST IMPORTANT RULE the eyepiece. comfortable viewing position for We have one
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Telestar RB-60.qxd 4/11/06 2:04 PM Page 7 SUN WARNING You will enjoy your telescope even more locating with the eyepiece. Line as you learn more about it. But don’t be up the object with the viewfinders NEVER USE YOUR TELESCOPE scared off by difficult terms or red dot. 5 TO LOOK AT THE SUN! complicated procedures. Don’t panic! LOOKING AT OR NEAR THE SUN WILL CAUSE Just relax and enjoy your scope. Look through the eyepiece: Once you INSTANT AND IRREVERSIBLE DAMAGE TO
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Telestar RB-60.qxd 4/11/06 2:04 PM Page 8 Look for different features on the Moon. The To move the telescope up and down, in your telescope: Venus, Mars, Jupiter most obvious features are craters. In fact unlock the altitude lock. Then rotate and Saturn. 6 you can see craters within craters. Some the altitude control wheel to move the craters have bright lines about them. These telescope up or down. Nine planets (maybe more!) travel in a fairly are called rays and are the result o
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Telestar RB-60.qxd 4/11/06 2:04 PM Page 9 Fig. 5 When Mars is close to the Earth, you can see Probably the most memorable sight some details on Mars, and sometimes even you will see in your telescope is Mars’ polar caps. But quite often, Mars is Saturn. Although you may not see 7 further away and just appears as a red dot many features on the surface of with some dark lines crisscrossing it. Saturn, its ring structure will steal your breath away. You will probably be able Jupiter, Saturn
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Telestar RB-60.qxd 4/11/06 2:04 PM Page 10 turns out, only with the sunlight interesting. But look again. There is much You may be able to see the Andromeda shining through them, can the rings information that is revealed in stars. galaxy and several others in your telescope. 8 be seen. Uranus and Neptune also They will appear as small, fuzzy clouds. Only have faint rings. The first thing you will notice is that not all very large telescope will reveal spiral or stars are the same color
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Telestar RB-60.qxd 4/11/06 2:04 PM Page 11 Use a compass to make a circle, or trace Fig. 6 Barlow lens: You can also change around the lid of a jar. Draw what you see in magnification by using your Barlow. your eyepiece inside the circle. The best eyepiece 9 Remove the eyepiece from the exercise for drawing is to observe the moons diagonal mirror and slide in the of Jupiter every night or so. Try to make Barlow. And then place the eyepiece Jupiter and the moons approximately the
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Telestar RB-60.qxd 4/11/06 2:04 PM Page 12 using the telescopes coarse and fine lack sharpness—the same object, when cause the image to move. Avoid observing adjustment controls. At higher observed higher in the sky, will appear sites where vibrations cause image 10 powers, astronomical objects will sharper and have greater contrast. Try movement (for example, near railroad seem to move through the field of reducing power (change your eyepiece) if tracks). Viewing from t
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Telestar RB-60.qxd 4/11/06 2:04 PM Page 13 always described by how large their Surf the Web and visit your local library: reducers to make slow exposure objective lens is. Your telescope is 60mm The internet contains a huge amount of telescopes have faster focal ratios. or 2.4 inches. Other telescopes are 90mm, 11 astronomical information, both for children 8 inches, 16 inches, or even 3 feet in and adults. Check out astronomy books from Altaz mounting simply means your diam
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Telestar RB-60.qxd 4/11/06 2:04 PM Page 14 Look at the specifications. You will magnification is when you use a Barlow, • Avoid cleaning the telescope’s lenses. A see that the focal length of your multiply your eyepiece’s magnification little dust on the front surface of the 12 scope is 700mm. Let’s say that you by two. telescope’s correcting lens will not cause have obtained a 13mm eyepiece. You loss of image quality. Eyepiece’s magnification x 2 can tell that what the focal len
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Telestar RB-60.qxd 4/11/06 2:04 PM Page 15 telescope tube, resulting in a more comfor- table observing position in most cases. 13 Additional Eyepieces (1.25" barrel diameter): For higher or lower magnifications with the telescopes that accommodate 1.25" eyepieces, Meade Series 4000 Super Plössl eyepieces, 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
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Telestar RB-60.qxd 4/11/06 2:04 PM Page 16 Meade, freight-prepaid, with proof of limited to a term of one year from the date MEADE CONSUMER SOLUTIONS purchase. This warranty applies to the of original retail purchase. If you have a question concerning 14 original purchaser only and is non- your telescope, call Meade transferable. Meade products purchased This warranty gives you specific rights. You Instruments Consumer Solutions outside North America are not included in
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Telestar RB-60.qxd 4/11/06 2:04 PM Page 17 OBSERVATION LOG OBSERVER: OBJECT NAME: DATE & TIME OBSERVED: CONSTELLATION: EYEPIECE SIZE: SEEING CONDITIONS: EXCELLENT GOOD POOR NOTES: DRAWING OF IMAGE (SAVE ORIGINAL - BE SURE TO MAKE COPIES)
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Telestar RB-60.qxd 4/11/06 2:04 PM Page 18 OBSERVATION LOG OBSERVER: OBJECT NAME: DATE & TIME OBSERVED: CONSTELLATION: EYEPIECE SIZE: SEEING CONDITIONS: EXCELLENT GOOD POOR NOTES: DRAWING OF IMAGE
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Telestar RB-60.qxd 4/11/06 2:04 PM Page 20 Meade Instruments Corporation 1-800 6001 Oak Canyon, Irvine, California 92618 626-3233 www.meade.com
