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- Page 1 INSTRUCTION MANUAL Orion ® EQ-1 Equatorial Mount #9011 Customer Support (800) 676-1343 E-mail: support@telescope.com Corporate Offices (831) 763-7000 P.O. Box 1815, Santa Cruz, CA 95061 Providing Exceptional Consumer Optical Products Since 1975 IN 146 Rev. A 0500...
- Page 2 Mounting platform Dec. lock thumb screw (not shown) R.A. lock thumb screw R.A. slow-motion control Dec. slow-motion control Counterweight lock knob Counterweight Counterweight shaft Tripod leg attachment bolt Latitude adjustment t-bolt Azimuth lock knob Latitude lock t-bolt Accessory tray bracket Accessory tray Leg lock knob Figure 1.
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
ongratulations on your purchase of a quality Orion product. Your new EQ-1 Equatorial Mount was designed to work with many different telescope optical tubes. With its precision equatorial head, you’ll be able to easily track astronomical objects over time so that they remain within your eyepiece’s field of view. -
Page 4: Attaching A Telescope
4. With the accessory tray attached loosely, spread the halfway up the shaft and tighten the counterweight tripod legs apart as far as they will go, until the lock knob. The washer and screw on the end of the accessory tray brackets are taut. Then tighten the counterweight shaft will prevent the counterweight wing nuts. -
Page 5: Balancing The Telescope
mounting accessories fasten to the two holes in the top platform of the equatorial mount. 4. Balancing the Telescope Once the telescope is attached to the equatorial mount, the next step is to balance the telescope. Proper bal- ance is required to insure smooth movement of the telescope on both axes of the equatorial mount. -
Page 6: Setting Up And Using The Equatorial Mount
Loosen the tube ring clamps a few turns until you can 5. Setting Up and Using slide the telescope tube forward and back inside the the Equatorial Mount rings (this can be aided by using a slight twisting motion on the optical tube while you push or pull on it) (Figure When you look at the night sky, you no doubt have 3d). - Page 7 4. Loosen the azimuth adjustment knob and rotate the moving the telescope about the mount’s R.A. and Dec. entire equatorial mount left-to-right so the telescope axes. Once the telescope is pointed somewhere close tube (and R.A. axis) points roughly at Polaris. If you to the object to be viewed, retighten the mount’s R.A.
- Page 8 The Dec. slow-motion control cable can move the tele- The mount’s R.A. setting circle is scaled in hours, from scope a maximum of 25°. This is because the Dec. 1 through 24, with small hash marks in between repre- slow-motion mechanism has a limited range of mechan- senting 10 minute increments.
- Page 9 Confused About Pointing the Telescope? (parallel to the ground). Then loosen the Dec. lock thumb screw and rotate the telescope until it is pointing Beginners occasionally experience some confusion straight overhead. The counterweight shaft is still hori- about how to point the telescope overhead or in other zontal.
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Page 10: Specifications
To point the telescope to the east (Figure 5c) or west 7. Suggested Accessories (Figure 5d), or in other directions, you rotate the tele- scope on its R.A. and Dec. axes. Depending on the 1/4"-20 Adapter (Orion part #10103) altitude of the object you want to observe, the counter- This accessory bolts to the top of the equatorial head weight shaft will be oriented somewhere between and provides a threaded post on which to mount a cam-... - Page 12 One-Year Limited Warranty This Orion EQ-1 Equatorial Mount is warranted against defects in materials or workmanship for a period of one year from the date of purchase. This warranty is for the benefit of the original retail purchaser only. During this warranty period Orion Telescopes & Binoculars will repair or replace, at Orion’s option, any warranted instrument that proves to be defective, provided it is returned postage paid to: Orion Warranty Repair, 89 Hangar Way, Watsonville, CA 95076.