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Orion AstroView 9822 Instruction Manual

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INSTRUCTION MANUAL
Orion
AstroView
®
™
Equatorial Mount
#9822
AstroView Equatorial Mount
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Copyright © 2021 Orion Telescopes & Binoculars. All Rights Reserved. No part of this product instruction or any of its contents
may be reproduced, copied, modified or adapted, without the prior written consent of Orion Telescopes & Binoculars.
IN 192 Rev. C 05/19

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  • Page 1 A N E M P L O Y E E - O W N E D C O M P A N Y Copyright © 2021 Orion Telescopes & Binoculars. All Rights Reserved. No part of this product instruction or any of its contents may be reproduced, copied, modified or adapted, without the prior written consent of Orion Telescopes &...
  • Page 2 Dovetail cradle and bar Counterweight locking "t-nut" collar Large counterweight Counterweight lock knobs Latitude scale Small counterweight Latitude adjustment T-bolts Counterweight shaft "Toe Saver" Tripod leg Accessory tray Accessory tray bracket Leg lock knob Figure 1. The AstroView Equatorial Mount.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Congratulations on your purchase of a quality Orion mount. Your new AstroView Equatorial Mount was developed to work with many different telescope optical tubes. Designed for astronomical use, this precision mount allows convenient “tracking” of celestial objects as they move slowly across the sky, so they remain within your eyepiece’s field of view. The setting circles will assist you in locating hundreds of fascinating celestial denizens, including galaxies, nebulas, and star clusters, from their catalogued coor- dinates.

  • Page 4: Attaching A Telescope

    Figure 3. Attaching the Counterweight shaft to the mount (rotation) as well. Be sure to loosen the RA and Dec. telescopes, the mount may not provide sufficient stability for lock levers before doing this. Retighten them once the steady imaging. Any type of telescope can be mounted on the equatorial mount is properly oriented.

  • Page 5: Balancing The Telescope

    Figure 4. Proper operation of the equatorial mount requires that the telescope tube be balanced on both the R.A. and Dec. axes. (a) With the R.A. lock lever released, slide the counterweight along the counterweight shaft until it just counterbalances the tube. (b) When you let go with both hands, the tube should not drift up or down.

  • Page 6: Setting Up And Using The Equatorial Mount

    Focus lock Eyepiece Alignment Objective Little Dipper set-screw (3) focus ring set-screw (3) lens (in Ursa Minor) N.C.P. Big Dipper (in Ursa Major) Polaris Cassiopeia Figure 6. To find Polaris in the night sky, look north and find the Big Dipper. Extend an imaginary line from the two "Pointer Stars" in Figure 7.
  • Page 7 the tripod so the telescope points north. There is a label Remove the cap on the front opening of the equatorial bearing a large “N” at the top of one tripod leg. It should mount. Focus the polar finder by rotating the eyepiece. be facing north.
  • Page 8 Dec. setting circle are negative. So, the coordinates for the Orion Nebula listed in a star atlas Use of the R.A. and Dec. will look like this: Slow-Motion Control Cables The R.A.

  • Page 9: Specifications

    Figure 8. This illustration shows the telescope pointed in the four cardinal directions: (a) North, (b) South, (c) East, (d) West. Note that the tripod and mount have not been moved; only the telescope tube has move on the R.A. and Dec. axis. To point the telescope directly south, the counterweight shaft Using the Vernier Scale The R.A.
  • Page 10 A N E M P L O Y E E - O W N E D C O M P A N Y Copyright © 2021 Orion Telescopes & Binoculars. All Rights Reserved. No part of this product instruction or any of its contents...