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Star Pointer Finderscope 6 3 Eyepiece Focuser Knob 5 2 Tube Ring 1 Optical Tube Fork Arm 7 12 Collimation Tripod 10 Adjustment Knobs (114 & 130 models only) Accessory 8 Tray w/ Hand Control Holder 9 Hand Control Leg Lock 11 Knobs Figure 2. StarSeeker 114mm & 130mm Reflecting Telescopes (114mm model shown) 2
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Tube Ring Star Pointer 2 6 7 Fork Arm Clamp Finderscope Eyepiece 3 Accessory Tray w/ 8 Hand Control Holder Hand Control 9 Optical Tube 1 Star 4 Tripod Assembly 10 Diagonal Focuser 5 Knob Leg Lock 11 Knobs Figure 3. The Starseeker 80mm Refractor Telescope 3
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Parts identification 1 optical t ube: This is the main component of the 7 Fork arm: Mounts to the tripod (10) holds the Tube telescope. Ring Clamp (2) and houses the two motors. The hand controller and power supply will also plug into this piece. 2 t ube clamp: Holds the telescope to the fork arm. Unthread the knurled locking screw at the top to open. accessory t ray with Hand control 8 Insert tube and re-attach locking screw to secure. Holder: Used to hold eyepieces or other small accesso
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Some of the many standard features of the StarSeeker t able of contents include: Parts List........................................ 5 • Incredib le 4°/second sle w speed. Introduction...................................... 5 • F u l l y e n c l o s e d m o t o r s a n d o p t i c a l e n c o d e r s f o r p o s i t i o n location. Assembly ....................................... 5 • C o m p u t e r i z e d h a n d c o n t r o l l e r w i t h 4 , 0 0 0 o b j e c t d
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Tripod Fork Arm Mounting Base Platform Locking bolt Coupling (underneath Screw Accessory tray accessory tray) Figure 4. Attaching the fork arm to the tripod Figure 5. The accessory tray/hand control holder ORIENTATION BY HAND! Otherwise, the gears and motors The accessory tray has a built-on hand control holder protrud- may be damaged. After removing the assembly from the ship- ing from the side. The back of the hand control has an open- ping box, reposition the tube and mount as follows: i
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Eyepiece EZ Finder II Eyepiece Eyepiece EZ Finder II Adapter Thumbscrew Focus knob Eyepiece Adapter Thumbscrew Focus knob Figure 7. Visual accessories for the StarSeeker 114mm & 130mm Eyepiece adapter Star diagonal To remove the eyepiece, loosen the thumbscrew on the eye- piece adapter and slide the eyepiece out. Eyepieces are commonly referred to by their focal length and Figure 6. Visual accessories for the StarSeeker 80mm barrel diameter. The focal length of each eyepiece is typically
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Figure 1. Tighten the thumbscrew on the dovetail holder to Sight tube secure the EZ Finder II in place. ON/OFF operation Brightness control The EZ Finder II works by projecting a tiny red dot onto a lens mounted in the front of the unit. When you look through the EZ Finder II, the red dot will appear to float in space, helping you locate even the faintest of deep space objects. The red dot is produced by a light-emitting diode (LED) near the rear of the sight. A 3-volt lithium battery prov
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6. t our: Activates the tour mode, which seeks out all the best objects for a given month and automatically slews the StarSeeker to those objects. 7. Enter: Pressing Enter allows you to select any of the 1 7 StarSeeker functions, accept entered parameters and slew the telescope to displayed objects. 8. u ndo: Undo will take you out of the current menu and 2 display the previous level of the menu path. Press Undo repeatedly to get back to a main menu or use it to erase data entered by
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• P r e s s t h e R A T E k e y o n t h e h a n d c o n t r o l . T h e L C D w i l l Definition display the current speed rate in the upper right corner. “Altazimuth” or “Alt-Az” refers to a type of mounting that • P r e s s t h e n u m b e r o n t h e h a n d c o n t r o l t h a t c o r r e s p o n d s allows a telescope to move in both altitude (up and to the desired speed. (You do not need to press Enter to down) and azimuth (left and right) with re
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Time - Enter the current time for your area. You can enter 3. For the second alignment object, choose a bright star or either the local time (i.e. 8:00), or you can enter military planet as far as possible from the first alignment object. time (i.e. 20:00). Once again use the arrow buttons (3) to center the object in the finderscope and press ENTER. Then once centered • S e l e c t P M o r A M . I f m i l i t a r y t i m e w a s e n t e r e d , t h e h a n d in t
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auto t wo‑star align begin finding objects. Here is an overview of the two-star alignment procedure: As with Sky Align, Auto Two-Star Align requires you to enter all the necessary time/site information as referenced in the 1. Once the StarSeeker is powered on, use the Up and section entitled Initial Setup. Once this information is entered Down scroll keys (10) to select Two-Star Align, and press and confirmed, StarSeeker will prompt you to select and point ENTER. the telescope at one kno
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4. StarSeeker then asks you to center in the eyepiece the The Sun can be removed from the display by using the same alignment star you selected. Use the direction arrow procedure as above. buttons to slew the telescope to the alignment star and To improve the telescope pointing accuracy, you can use the carefully center the star in the finderscope. Press ENTER Re-Align feature as described below. when centered. starseeker re‑alignment 5. Then, center the star in the eyepiece and press ALIG
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that list. Pressing the Up and Down keys (10) allows you Finding Planets to scroll through the catalog to the desired object. The StarSeeker can locate all 8 of our solar systems planets plus the Sun and Moon. However, the hand control will only • P r e s s i n g a n y o f t h e c a t a l o g k e y s ( M , C A L D , N G C , o r display the solar system objects that are above the horizon (or STAR) will display a blinking cursor below the name of within its filter limit
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EQ North Used to track the sky when the telescope is location of the telescope at the time of observing. Since these polar aligned using an equatorial wedge in the Northern objects are relative to the location of the telescope, they are Hemisphere. This option is not used with the StarSeeker only valid for that exact location. To save land objects, once series of telescopes. again center the desired object in the eyepiece. Scroll down to the Save Land Obj command and press ENTER. The display
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scope setup Features If you want to explore the entire object database, set the maxi- mum altitude limit to 90° and the minimum limit to -90°. This will Setup Time-Site - Allows the user to customize the StarSeeker display every object in the database lists regardless of whether display by changing time and location parameters (such as it is visible in the sky from your location or not. time zone and daylight savings). Direction Buttons -The direction a star moves in the eye- Anti-backlash -
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1. Select Hibernate from the Utility Menu. 2. Move the telescope to a desire position and press ENTER. 3. Power off the telescope. Remember to never move your telescope manually while in Hibernate mode. Reversed from left to right, as Inverted image as viewed Once the telescope is powered on again the display will read viewed with a star diagonal with the eyepiece directly in Wake Up. After pressing Enter you have the option of scrolling telescope through the time/site information to c
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To convert degrees to feet at 1,000 yards, which is more use- ing contrast while ful for terrestrial observing, simply multiply by 52.5. Continuing a neutral density with our example, multiply the angular field 2.2° by 52.5. This or polarizing filter produces a linear field width of 115.5 feet at a distance of one will reduce over- thousand yards. all surface bright- ness and glare. General observing Hints observing the When working with any optical instrument, there are a few Planets thing
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side our own Milky Way. Most deep sky objects have a large angular size. Therefore, Figure 10. Seeing conditions directly affect quality. These drawings low-to-moderate represent a point source (i.e., star) under bad seeing conditions power is all you (right). Most often, seeing conditions produce images that lie some need to see them. where between these two extremes. Visually, they are too faint to bances vary from time-to-time and place-to-place. The size reveal any of the of th
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Support screws Collimation screws Figure 12. Collimation adjustment screws for the StarSeeker Figure 11. The view of a collimated telescope as seen through 114mm and 130mm. the focuser of the StarSeeker 114mm and 130mm reflectors. and 130mm, however, have collimation screws that can be Rear used to adjust the alignment of the primary mirror. cover plate To check if your telescope is in collimation refer to figure 6-1. If you look into the eyepiece adapter (without an eyepiece) at the t
