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- Page 1 TerraStar60 MEADE INSTRUCTION MANUAL with Carry Bag 60mm | 2.4 inch Altazimuth Refracting Telescope...
- Page 2 WARNING! Never use a Meade Telescope to look at the Sun! ® Looking at or near the Sun will cause instant and irreversible damage to your eye. Eye damage is often painless, so there is no warning to the observer that damage has occurred until it is too late.
- Page 3 INTRODUCTION Your telescope is an excellent beginner’s to see in your telescope. The focal length will instrument, and is designed to observe help later on to calculate magnification. objects in the sky and also on land. It can be Setting up your telescope involves these your personal window on the universe or simple steps: allow you to intimately study the behavior of...
- Page 4 Inset A FIGURE 1 Figure 1: Meade TerraStar60 Altazimuth Refracting Telescope Not visable (see Inset A: Red Dot Viewfinder Assembly other side) Inset B: Altazimuth or Azimuth Mount Inset C: Tripod Legs and Accessory Tray 1. Eyepiece 2. Red dot viewfinder (see Inset A) 3.
- Page 5 FIGURE 2 Figure 2: Carry Bag Opened with Telescope Inside Inset D Durable carry bag 24. Accessory tray pouch 25. Tripod 26. Straps to secure tripod (2-places) 27. Optical tube assembly 28. Strap to secure front of the optical tube 29.
- Page 6 ASSEMBLE YOUR TRIPOD supports [8] using the three provided 1- 2. Slide the optical tube [4] onto the 1/4” long bolts and the wing nuts. mounting bracket from the front end of The tripod is the basic support for your the mounting bracket.
- Page 7 Fig. 5 viewing position. 2. Turn on the red dot viewfinder using the switch on the side of the finder. 1. Slide the diagonal mirror (13) into the focuser drawtube(15). 3. Without moving the telescope, look through the red dot viewfinder. Turn 2.
- Page 8 TO MOVE THE TELESCOPE 5. Remove the optical tube assembly from S S U U N N W W A A R R N N I I N N G G the mount by removing the two lock Your telescope is altazimuth mounted. NEVER USE YOUR TELESCOPE knobs (11) and sliding the optical tube (4) Altazimuth is just a complicated way of...
- Page 9 10. You many now close and place the small done so, align the viewfinder (2) with sights in the universe are, but that’s OK. Just accessory storage bag into the carry bag the telescope’s eyepiece (1) as point and observe at first. main compartment.
- Page 10 Neutral density filters are available from wish to move the telescope in very small they may increase the number of planets in Meade as an optional accessory and (fine control) steps. our solar system. enhance contrast to improve your observation of lunar features.
- Page 11 are made mostly of gases and are Galilean moons in your telescope Venus is seen before dawn or after sunset, sometimes called gas giants. If they had before, you’re missing a real treat! because it is close to the Sun. You can grown much bigger, they may have become Each night, the moons appear in observe Venus going through crescent...
- Page 12 Does one seem brighter than Optional color filters help bring out detail being born. Some nebulas are the remains the other? and contrast of the planets. Meade offers a of stars exploding. These explosions are line of inexpensive color filters. called supernovas.
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Page 13: Some Observing Tips
Jupiter every night or so. Try to make Meade offers a complete line of eyepieces and meteors and what is a black hole. The Jupiter and the moons approximately the for your telescope. - Page 14 (for example, near railroad sharpness—the same object, when observed • The Meade 4M Community 27 Hubble, Irvine, CA 92618 tracks). Viewing from the upper floors of a higher in the sky, will appear sharper and •...
- Page 15 objects are easiest to see under dark skies. HAVE A GOOD TIME, The focal ratio helps determine how But it is still possible to observe even in fast the photographic speed of a ASTRONOMY IS FUN! a city. telescope is. The lower the focal ratio SPECIFICATIONS number, the faster the exposure.
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Page 16: Use The Specifications To Calculate The Magnification Of Your Eyepiece
SURF THE WEB Magnification rewarding viewing. It will rarely, if ever, • The Meade 4M Community: require factory servicing or maintenance. http://www.meade4m.org Look at the specifications. You will see that • Sky & Telescope : Follow these guidelines to keep your the focal length of your scope is 700mm. -
Page 17: Optional Accessories
F F i i g g . . 8 8 : : Vertical adjustment nut. (Bracket correction at an economical price. Contact shown with optical your Meade Dealer or see the Meade catalog tube removed.) for more information. Visit us on the web at www.meade.com. -
Page 18: Meade Consumer Solutions
MEADE CONSUMER SOLUTIONS product, or part thereof, found by Meade to damages or lost profit which may result be defective, provided the defective part is from a breach of this warranty. Any implied If you have a question concerning your... - Page 19 OBSERVATION LOG OBSERVER: OBJECT NAME: DATE & TIME OBSERVED: CONSTELLATION: EYEPIECE SIZE: SEEING CONDITIONS: EXCELLENT GOOD POOR NOTES: DRAWING OF IMAGE...
- Page 20 OBSERVATION LOG OBSERVER: OBJECT NAME: DATE & TIME OBSERVED: CONSTELLATION: EYEPIECE SIZE: SEEING CONDITIONS: EXCELLENT GOOD POOR NOTES: DRAWING OF IMAGE...
- Page 21 OBSERVATION LOG OBSERVER: OBJECT NAME: DATE & TIME OBSERVED: CONSTELLATION: EYEPIECE SIZE: SEEING CONDITIONS: EXCELLENT GOOD POOR NOTES: DRAWING OF IMAGE...
- Page 22 OBSERVATION LOG OBSERVER: OBJECT NAME: DATE & TIME OBSERVED: CONSTELLATION: EYEPIECE SIZE: SEEING CONDITIONS: EXCELLENT GOOD POOR NOTES: DRAWING OF IMAGE...
- Page 24 ©2011 Meade Instruments Corp. All rights reserved. Specifications subject to change without notice. Images depicted may not be representative of the images seen or captured through this product. 1-800 Meade Instruments Corp 27 Hubble, Irvine, California 20225 04/11 REV0...