SKY-WATCHER AZ-GTix - Operating Your Telescope; Aligning and Using the Finderscope; Focusing the Telescope

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PART II: OPERATING YOUR TELESCOPE
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ries. When they are correctly aligned with the telescope, objects can be quickly located and
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ing it back towards the bracket. The front lens holder can now be turned in and out to focus.
When focus is reached, lock it in position with the locking ring (Fig.2.1.1a).
• Choose a distant object that is at least 500 yards away and point the main telescope
2.1Aligning and using the finderscope
at the object. Adjust the telescope so that the object is in the center of the view in your
eyepiece.
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tered on the crosshairs.
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(Fig.2.1.1b).
Fig.2.1.1a
Fig.2.1.1b
• Slowly turn the focus knobs under the focuser, one way or the other, until the image in the
This often happens with
short focal ratio telescopes, particularly when they haven’t yet reached outside tempera
eyepiece is sharp
(Fig.2.2a).The image usually has to be finely refocused over time, due
to small variations caused by temperature changes, flexures, etc.
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ture. Refocusing is almost always necessary when you change an eyepiece.
2.2 Focusing the telescope
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Fig.2.2a