About Your Telescope - Meade ECLIPSE VIEW 60 Instruction Manual

The EclipseView Telescopes are Alt-Az mounted telescopes. The word "Alt-Az" comes from the way the telescope
mount moves. This mount style allows you to move the telescope both up/down (altitude) and left/right (azimuth), or
Altitude-Azimuth directions. Hence, it's called an Alt-Az telescope for short. This is the simplist type of mount sold.
The EclispeView60 optical tubes are called refractors because they use lenses to refract, or bend, the incoming light
to the focal point. The light at the focal point is then magnified by the eyepiece to provide a larger viewing image.
The EclipseView76 optical tubes are called reflectors because they use mirrors to focus incoming light. Inside the
telescope, there are two mirrors: a primary and a secondary mirror. The primary mirror is the largest of the two and is
located at the bottom of the tube. The secondary mirror is near the top of the tube. The large primary mirror collects
light from the object you're looking at and bounces it forward to the secondary mirror which redirects it out the side of
the tube. The reflecting telescope must have the mirrored elements aligned, or collimated, in order to get good image
quality.
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Always use the EclipseView Solar Filter when viewing at or near the Sun or irreversible eye damage may occur.
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