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ORION TELESCOPES & BINOCULARS StarBlast 10149 Instruction Manual

ORION TELESCOPES & BINOCULARS StarBlast 10149 Instruction Manual

Compact travel refractor

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inSTRuCTiOn Manual
Orion
StarBlast
62mm
®
Compact Travel Refractor
#10149
Customer Support:
www.OrionTelescopes.com/contactus
Corporate Offices:
89 Hangar Way, Watsonville CA 95076 - USA
Providing Exceptional Consumer Optical Products Since 1975
IN 503 Rev. A 07/13

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Summary of Contents for ORION TELESCOPES & BINOCULARS StarBlast 10149

  • Page 1 inSTRuCTiOn Manual Orion StarBlast 62mm ® ™ Compact Travel Refractor #10149 Customer Support: www.OrionTelescopes.com/contactus Corporate Offices: 89 Hangar Way, Watsonville CA 95076 - USA Providing Exceptional Consumer Optical Products Since 1975 IN 503 Rev. A 07/13...
  • Page 2 Diagonal locking thumbscrew Lens shade Drawtube Focus wheel Tripod adapter Eyepiece locking thumbscrew Figure 1. The StarBlast 62mm Compact Travel Refractor Congratulations on your purchase of the Orion StarBlast 62CTR Telescope. The high resolution optics in this instrument will allow you to see many amazing sights on both the ground and in space. With the standard configuration this telescope gives magnified, correct-image views that allow easy tracking of moving objects such as birds or objects in the night time sky.
  • Page 3 Figure 2. Figure 5. The Diagonal Locking Thumbscrew may need to be loosened to insert the Diagonal. Tighten the thumbscrew to secure the diagonal. Insert the 20mm Plössl Eyepiece into the Diagonal; secure with the Eyepiece Locking Thumbscrew (Figure 4). Figure 3.
  • Page 4 nicely on the motorized StarBlast AutoTracker Mount (for auto- matic tracking of objects in the night sky), and the AZ4 mount with slow motion controls (both of which have vixen dovetail mounting systems). (Figure 6) Point the telescope at a target and focus! Focusing the telescope is accomplished by simple turning the large silver focus wheels on either side of the back of the telescope (Figure 7).
  • Page 5 Photography Through the impacts how much you can see through any telescope. Your StarBlast 62 is the perfect companion to take camping! From StarBlast 62 a “dark sky site” – a place remote from city lights where the Milky way is visible – there are hundreds of objects that can be Single Lens Reflex or SLR cameras work best with a powerful found with the StarBlast 62 –...
  • Page 6: Specifications

    Specifications appendix a – Deep Sky Observing with the Orion Telescope diameter: 62mm 62mm CTR Telescope Optical System: 4-element Refracting telescope The Starblast 62 is a powerful, little telescope! It will show you Telescope Focal Length: 520mm all the Messier Objects (the best deep sky objects) and many more astronomical wonders.
  • Page 7: One-Year Limited Warranty

    • M17 (The Swan Nebula) • NGC 2281 • Globular Star Clusters • M27 (The Dumbell Nebula) • M1 – The Crab Nebula, a Supernova remnant • M92 • The California Nebula, NGC 1499 • NGC 5139 (Omega Centauri) • NGC 2174 •...