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User Manual - Page 1
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MEADE INSTRUCTION MANUAL
Polaris Series German Equatorial Telescopes
POLARIS SERIES
User Manual - Page 3
... • German equatorial mount • Stainless-steel tripod with accessory tray • Three 1.25" eyepieces:
MA25mm, MA9mm, MA6.3mm • Red dot viewfinder with the parts
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of the lens or mirror, also known as "aperture", determines how much detail you to see in the sky.
Setting up your telescope involves these simple steps:
•Setup your...
User Manual - Page 4
... 1A Figure 1A: Meade Polaris Reflecting Telescope
Inset A:
Accessory Tray
Inset B:
Red Dot Viewfinder Assembly. Counterweight lock knobs
32. Counterweight safety knob
33. Declination lock (see Inset C)
15. Red dot viewfinder bracket mounting visible)
thumbscrews (see Inset A)
12. Right Ascension setting circle
3. Counterweight(s)
30. Leg brace support (see Fig 4/5)...
User Manual - Page 5
.... Sliding leg extension
14. 90 Degree Erect-Image Prism
(see Inset C)
13. FIGURE 1B
Figure 1B: Meade Polaris Refracting Telescope
Inset A:
Accessory Tray
Inset B:
Red Dot Viewfinder Assembly.
1. Azimuth lock
6. Focus knobs
7. Azimuth base ...C:
Tripod Leg
26. Small Equatorial Mount
27. Declination setting circle
4. Leg brace support (see Inset A)
12. Eyepiece
20.
User Manual - Page 6
...telescope at the top of the accessory tray over the attachment point as it stops.
2. ATTACH THE COUNTERWEIGHT SHAFT AND COUNTERWEIGHT
1. Remove the safety knob (8) and set...rotate the tray until it is the basic support for the other Meade accessories while observing, such as the Barlow ...not look through the telescope as shown in or out to your telescope. 4 SETUP YOUR TRIPOD
The tripod...
User Manual - Page 7
...tube.
Lay the optical tube saddle plate (13) onto the top of the telescope. NOTE: The Polaris 80 and 90 models use a dovetail to roughly a 45° angle with the viewfinder lens ... to a firm feel .
3. Once the red
cable. the side of the telescope to secure the red dot viewfinder.
Replace the thumbscrews (16) on the red dot
45°. Turn the latitude adjusting ...
User Manual - Page 8
... polar axis so that the counterweight shaft (6) is moving.
3. Do not point this telescope at or near the Sun. BALANCING THE TELESCOPE
In order for the telescope to the ground (horizontal).
2.
INSERT THE EYEPIECE (REFLECTOR MODELS ONLY)
1. Do not look through the telescope as it must first be balanced as follows:
Note: If the counterweight is...
User Manual - Page 11
... axis. Do not point this level of pointing accuracy, the telescope can ! Fig. 8
Little Dipper
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Polaris
Big Dipper
Cassiopeia
Equatorial mount with the pole at the center. constellations of Orion, Virgo... Level the mount with this telescope at or near the Sun. Determine the latitude of the three tripod legs.
3. By lining up the Meade Polaris German
TOO MUCH POWER? All celestial...
User Manual - Page 15
...set of gas. The color of stars sometimes can find double (or binary) stars, stars that not all stars are clouds of rings that can be able to see some nebulas with your telescope...has rings, but it is that are part of gas in the Northern Hemisphere are... telescope. These explosions are multiple stars. It turns out, only with the sunlight shining through -a larger galaxy. Meade offers...
User Manual - Page 16
...the Moon, a planet, star, etc.) you are useful for your telescope. Contact your local Meade dealer or Meade's Customer Service department for most viewing conditions. The best exercise for other asteroids,
... in your eyepiece inside the circle. Draw what you can be a problem.
Astronomy and Sky and Telescope magazines print star charts each night. colors, how stars and planets are...
User Manual - Page 18
... darker the better. Do not point this telescope at or near the Sun.
But it ...German Equatorial
POLARIS 114 Optical tube design Reflector Optical tube focal length 900mm Primary mirror diameter 114mm (4.5") Focal ratio f/7.9 Mount Large German Equatorial SPECIFICATIONS POLARIS...Web and visit your eye. ASTRONOMY RESOURCES
• The Meade 4M Community 27 Hubble, Irvine, CA 92618
•...
User Manual - Page 19
.../lens is faster than f/10. Mount Large German Equatorial
For example, the objective lens on your eye. Each telescope has its own set of focal l1engths and, therefore, different
of the length of a telescope is hooked up to make slow exposure telescopes have
Optical tube design Reflector Primary mirror diameter (reflectors) or
faster focal ratios. In other words...
User Manual - Page 20
...models), in the best condition:
•As with a 2X Barlow lens
Look at or near the Sun will rarely be cleaned as infrequently as possible. If the telescope's dust cover is replaced after each observing session, cleaning of solution.
Round this telescope at the specifications.
Follow these guidelines to 1 part...the eyepiece. the Polaris 90 magnifies objects... factory servicing or ...
User Manual - Page 21
... time to familiarize yourself with the following collimation procedure, so that the optics must be discussed later.
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COLLIMATION (ALIGNMENT) OF OPTICS (REFLECTING MODELS ONLY)
Primary Mirror Misalignment
All Meade Polaris Reflecting telescopes are made with the secondary mirror assembly and the primary mirror cell (Fig. 13) and will be re aligned for best optical...
User Manual - Page 23
...13). To adjust the primary mirror tilt screws (2, Fig 13), first turn by trial-and-error, turn each primary mirror tilt screw.
Then by several turns the 3 hex-head primary mirror ... on all Polaris models. If the collimation was performed correctly, the central star disk and rings will look through the telescope as the primary mirror cell tilt screws. Other models have Phillips head...
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