TwinStar 619013-E Assembly Manual

Assembly Guide : 90mm Cassegrain with iOptron

INTRODUCTION

Congratulations! You have bought a wonderful telescope. This is a precision optical instrument, and

you have many wonderful evenings of observing the night sky ahead of you. This guide is to help

you assemble your telescope properly.

We know that many people are visually oriented and that pictures of the assembly process are help-

ful. We have put this guide together to help you assemble your telescope for your first night of ob-

serving.

Once your telescope is assembled and ready to go, the rest is up to you. Learning astronomy is all

the fun anyhow! So let's get started . . .

ASSEMBLING THE TELESCOPE

Attach the iOptron SmartStar Cube to

Step 1

the tripod as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1 – Attaching the SmartStar Cube.

Table of Contents

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Page 1 Assembly Guide : 90mm Cassegrain with iOptron INTRODUCTION Congratulations! You have bought a wonderful telescope. This is a precision optical instrument, and you have many wonderful evenings of observing the night sky ahead of you. This guide is to help you assemble your telescope properly.
Page 2 Step 2 Attach the Accessory tray to the tripod as shown in Figure 2. Figure 2 – Attaching the Accessory Tray. Your iOptron SmartStar tripod and Step 3 mount is ready to go! Figure 3 – The completed iOptron Smart- Star tripod and mount.
Page 3 Once the mounting plate is attached to Step 5 the telescope, simply slide the assem- bled telescope right into mount and lock it in place with the set screw as shown in Figure 5. Figure 5 – Attach the telescope to the mount. Next, you can attach the optional sighting Step 6 scope to the main telescope as shown in...
Page 4 Finally, insert one of your eyepieces Step 8 into the back of the angle prism, as shown in Figure 8, and you are ready to begin observing. Be sure to tighten the set screw that holds the eyepiece in place. Figure 8 –...