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- Page 1 INSTRUCTION MANUAL Orion ® SkyView Deluxe ™ Equatorial Mount #9400 Customer Support (800) 676-1343 E-mail: support@telescope.com Corporate Offices (831) 763-7000 P.O. Box 1815, Santa Cruz, CA 95061 Providing Exceptional Consumer Optical Products Since 1975 IN 097 Rev. A 0898...
- Page 2 Tube ring mounting bolt Declination setting circle Declination lock lever Right ascension slow- motion control Declination slow- motion control Counterweight shaft Right ascension lock lever Counterweight Right ascension setting circle Counterweight lock knob Polar axis finder scope Retaining washer Latitude adjustment knob and knob Latitude lock lever Azimuth adjustment...
- Page 3 ongratulations on your purchase of a quality Orion product. Your new SkyView Deluxe Equatorial Mount offers solid stability, mechanical precision, and the versatility to accommodate a variety of differ- ent small to medium-sized telescope tubes. It features a heavy-duty equatorial head with fully enclosed 360°...
- Page 4 1. Lay the equatorial mount on its side. Attach the tripod legs 3. Attaching A Telescope one at a time to the base of the mount by sliding the tripod leg attachment bolt into the slot in the mount and lightly The SkyView Deluxe Equatorial Mount is designed to hold small tightening the knob finger-tight.
- Page 5 horizontal when you carefully let go with both hands. This on the Dec. setting circle should read 90°. Retighten the is the balance point for the Dec. axis. Before clamping the Dec. lock lever. rings tight again, rotate the telescope so the eyepiece is 4.
- Page 6 the bolt that connects the equatorial head to the tripod. Calibrating the Declination Setting Circle You are now precisely polar-aligned. 1. Loosen the Dec. lock lever and position the telescope as accurately as possible in declination so that it is parallel to the If you do not have a clear view of Polaris from your observing R.A.
- Page 7 What if you need to aim the telescope directly north, but at an Tube Mounting Rings object that is nearer to the horizon than Polaris? You can’t do it These quality cast-aluminum rings are custom-made for use with the counterweight shaft pointing down as pictured in Figure with the SkyView Equatorial Mount.
- Page 8 Little Dipper (in Ursa Minor) Big Dipper N.C.P. (in Ursa Major) Polaris Cassiopeia To find Polaris in the night sky, look north and find the Big Dipper. Extend an imaginary line from the two “Pointer Stars” in the bowl of the Big Dipper. Go about 5 times the distance between those stars and you’ll reach Polaris, which lies within 1° of the north celestial pole (NCP).
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