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1268 - EN - Omegon Advanced 5” and 6” EQ-320 Instruction manual Omegon® Advanced 5” & 6” EQ-320 English version January 2020 Rev. A Art. No. 61021 & 61022 The complete or partial reproduction of the contents of this document in any form other than for private use is expressly prohibited.
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Omegon® Advanced 5” & 6” EQ-320 Thank you for choosing our “EQ-320” mount. Please read this manual carefully so that you can implement the relatively simple handling without errors. Omegon EQ-320 is a parallactic, or equatorial, telescope mount. Its advantage is that the system can be aligned with the celestial pole and thus essentially only has to be adjusted in the right ascension (hour axis).
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Please ensure adequate levelling. Now place the tripod tray (17) onto the middle of the tripod spreader (16) and twist until it engages. The Omegon EQ-320 mount can now be fitted to the tripod. Use the tripod centre screw (7) to secure the mount to the tripod.
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1.2.3. Attaching the counterweight. The counterweight (5) can now be pushed onto the counterweight rod (4). To do this, first remove the locking screw at the end of the counterweight rod, push on the counterweight and lock it with the wing bolt on the counterweight rod near the locking screw.
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3. Adjustment of the viewfinder. The viewfinder, whether optical with crosshairs or as a red dot finder, naturally has to be aimed at the same point in the sky as the telescope itself, otherwise the objects in the sky cannot be found. Proceed as follows: ...
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