Installing The Diagonal & Eyepiece; Installing The Finderscope; Aligning The Finderscope - Celestron 80AZS Instruction Manual

INSTALLING THE DIAGONAL & EYEPIECE
Other The mirror diagonal is a prism that corrects the image to be right side up and oriented correctly left-to-right The
diagonal can be rotated to the most comfortable viewing position To install the diagonal and eyepiece:
1 . Loosen the thumbscrews and insert the small barrel of the diagonal into the 1 25" eyepiece adapter on the telescope
tube (see Figure 2-11)
2 . Loosen the thumbscrew on the diagonal and insert the chrome barrel of one of the eyepieces all the way down
Tighten the set screw to secure the eyepiece in place
Fig. 2-11

INSTALLING THE FINDERSCOPE

1 . Remove the two silver nuts on the top left side of the telescope tube near the focuser
2 . Place the finderscope bracket over the two threaded posts and secure it in place with the nuts (see Figure 2-12)
NOTE:
The larger diameter lens of the finderscope is pointed toward the front of the main telescope.

ALIGNING THE FINDERSCOPE

1 . Look through the main telescope using a 20 mm eyepiece and locate a distant target such as a streetlight or stop sign
The target should be as far away as possible or at least ¼ mile away Center this target in the 20 mm eyepiece
2 . Look through the finderscope and note the position of the same object
3 . Without moving the main telescope, turn the thumbscrews located around the finderscope bracket until the crosshairs
of the finderscope are centered on the object seen in the center of the telescope's 20 mm eyepiece
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