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- Page 1 Instructions Manual Zoomion® Apollo 80 English version 7.2015 Rev A...
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Page 2: Included Parts
The Zoomion® Apollo 80 Congratulations on the purchase of the new Zoomion® Apollo 80. This telescope will give you hours of fun, with its optical glass lenses and light gathering capability, it is the ideal companion to start in the world of amateur astronomy. - Page 3 Figure 3. Tray placement. Figure 2. Tripod assembly. Figure 5. Thread the counter-weight shaft. Insert counterweight. Figure 4. Place equatorial head on top of tripod. Figure 7. Fix the tube’s ring. Figure 6. Fix Dec. and R.A. handles.
- Page 4 Figure 8. Adjust Dec. axis. Figure 9. Tighten the side hand-knob. Figure 12. Detailed mount parts. Figure 10. Balance the R.A. axis with counterweight. Figure 13. Adjusting latitude/altitude. 4. How to use the equatorial mount. The equatorial mount is a powerful tool for astronomical observation.
- Page 5 Figure 15. Locking the R.A. axis. Figure 14. R.A. Axis. There are two axis in the eq. mount. One is the R.A. (Right Ascension) axis as shown in fig. 14. This means the telescope can rotate around this axis. The R.A. should point north to Polaris. Tracking (see what this is below) is made using the R.A.
- Page 6 corrections to be made in each axis. However this is not the recommend procedure to track an object. The mount should be placed in station i.e. aligned in such a way that only the R.A. is required 4.2. How to set the mount in station. to turn to track a Star.
- Page 7 5. How to install and use the finder scope. included LED finder scope is a powerful aid to point the telescope to a ground or sky objects. Install the finder scope as shown in figure 23. Make sure to tighten the two supplied finder scope nuts as shown .
- Page 8 Figure 26. Selection brightness. Figure 25. The led projects a bright red point. Figure 27. Use the altitude thumbscrew to adjust the finder. Figure 28. Use the altitude thumbscrew to adjust the finder. The finder scope’s pointing direction can be adjusted. This is important because the finder scope should always point in the same direction as the telescope –...
- Page 9 5. Aligning the Finder scope Figure A. A distant object is centered at the telescope’s field of view. In this example we have a house with a chimney. The chimney is the reference point to place at the center of the field of view. We first look through the telescope with the lowest magnification possible, so we have the widest field of view.
- Page 10 6. What can been seen with this telescope? Below you will find some examples of what you can expect to see when using this telescope. 6.1. The Moon is one of the most spectular objects to be seen through a telescope. Even a small telescope will reveal high detail of the Moon’s surface.
- Page 11 Telescope’s focal length is 500mm. 7. Using the accessories, a bit of math H20 eyepiece’s focal length is 20mm. to understand how all it works. Using the accessories is easy and fun. To 900���� change magnification simply swap = 45 ���������� 20����...