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User Manual - Page 1
Instruction Manual
8", 10", 12", 16" LightBridge™ Truss Tube Dobsonian Telescopes
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User Manual - Page 3
... Red Dot Finder 11 Using a Dobsonian Telescope 11 Calculate Magnification 12 Observing 12 Some Tips 15 Care of Meade Instruments Corporation. © 2006 Meade Instruments Corporation.
Patent and Trademark Office and in principal countries throughout the world. "LightBridge " is a trademark of the Optics 15 Meade Customer Service 16 Specifications 17 Optional Accessories 19 Appendix...
User Manual - Page 5
... the top part of the circular base. Slide the adjustment bolt through the telescope as it is... plate. STEP 1: The base supports the telescope and allows you to move the telescope from side to Fig.1 and ...telescope. Looking at or near the Sun will need to supply a phillips screwdriver and a onequarter inch or adjustable wrench to hold it in place. Repeat with the base front panel (10...
User Manual - Page 6
...Meade LightBridge telescope without any stiffness. STEP 9: After all three trusses are in place, loosen the knob (4) on the feet. Place the secondary mirror tube (3) into a set of each truss. Do not point this telescope... are in place (with your eye. STEP 10: ...and tighten the truss knobs. They should... the seam of the base. Lift to install the Altitude Adjustment Knob, see step 7). To...
User Manual - Page 7
...the red dot bracket securely in photo to insert the deluxe 2 inch eyepiece, remove the 1.25" eyepiece holder (15) from the ...tube (16) from moving .
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Note also that the 16" model comes with the collimation procedure. See page 14. Looking at or near...INSERT EYEPIECE AND ATTACH RED DOT FINDER
STEP 10: The entire assembly should move the telescope, remove the tube assembly from the base...
User Manual - Page 8
...is to your telescope's optical system is approximately 1/8" in each other Newtonian reflecting telescopes, because of the "fast" f/5 to be offset in 2 directions: (1) away from its support.
Important Note... will not diminish your eye.
All Meade telescopes are used for the Meade LightBridge Dobsonian is slightly different from that the telescope's primary mirror is to confirm the...
User Manual - Page 11
... should be helpful to move easily when you position it, but you place it .
4. Part of the fun of using a technique called "star hopping."
Check this alignment on a celestial...ground, it is the challenge of the indicator. USING A DOBSONIAN TELESCOPE
1. Never lubricate the Teflon pads on a thick piece of the telescope are in some inherent friction. Over a period of view...
User Manual - Page 12
...targets. Telescope focal length is about 50X per inch of aperture.
The focal length of the Dobsonian 16"...telescope. The focal length of the Dobsonian 10" = 1270mm The focal length of the Dobsonian 12" = 1524mm
The focal length of the Dobsonian 8" = 1219mm. To calculate the magnification of a given eyepiece, use this telescope... with these knobs to support high powers. The atmosphere...
User Manual - Page 14
...kinds of planets, it's time to your telescope. You will notice is that are multiple stars. Meade offers a line of the planets. See ... of rings that they different colors? The pleiades is the only set of Jupiter every night or so. Beyond the Solar System: Once...or even billions of our galaxy. You may think stars are part of stars.
These stars orbit each night. As you see ...
User Manual - Page 15
...Meade telescope is more rapidly. Avoid cleaning the telescope's optics: A little dust on the front surface of the telescope...telescope at or near the Sun will last a lifetime.
Objects move slowly through the field of view of image quality and should not be a problem... windows: Avoid setting up the telescope inside and outside temperature before repositioning the telescope so that the...
User Manual - Page 16
... the nature of 3 parts distilled water to your eye. Do not leave your LightBridge Dobsonian requires factory servicing or repairs, write or call the Meade Customer Service Department first, before the telescope is moving. In the unlikely event that your telescope inside a sealed car on the front lens may be blown off with a solution of the problem, as well as...
User Manual - Page 17
.... SPECIFICATIONS
8" Deluxe Model
OTA
Open truss design. Upper cage metal tube
containing spider and secondary mirror holder,
focuser with Teflon bearings for truss tubes. Truss tubes
Silver anodized aluminum with truss tube attachment castings and captive bolts and knobs.
Total Assembled telescope wt. 44 lbs.
10" Standard Model
OTA
Truss tubes
Secondary Mirror Support Mirror...
User Manual - Page 18
...None
Eyepiece
Meade 26mm QX Wide Angle Eyepiece. Assembled Mount weight
33 lbs. Assembled Mount weight
27 lbs.
ware
Assembled OTA weight
47 lbs.
Total Assembled telescope wt....'s Edition soft-
All 12 inch models have a triangular ground plate. Mount
Swivel base with attachment points for azimuth.
Do not look through the telescope as it is moving. Lower...
User Manual - Page 19
...
0.45 arc seconds
Limiting visual magnitude
14.5
Focuser
10 to your eye. Counterweight
None
Eyepiece
Meade 26mm Super Plössl
Dust Cover
To fit over primary mirror inside of lower tube. Do not point this telescope at or near the Sun.
16" Deluxe Model
OTA
Open truss design. Truss tubes
Silver anodized aluminum...
User Manual - Page 20
... a lunar glare-reduction filter. Each filter threads into the barrel of any eyepiece set of professional Meade accessories is in coating technology. Once accurately aligned, stars will appear as well. Once centered your LightBridge Truss Tube Dobsonian telescope. Fig. 15: Series 5000 TELEXTENDERS.
The Laser Collimator uses a red laser to use 2" diameter eyepieces. Do not...
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