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- Page 1 RB-60 MEADE INSTRUCTION MANUAL 60mm | 2.4" 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 Setting up your telescope involves these instrument, and is designed to observe simple steps: objects in the sky and also on land. It can be • Assemble your tripod your personal window on the universe or •...
- Page 4 Inset A FIGURE 1 Figure 1: Meade 60-RB Altazimuth Refracting Telescope Inset A: Red Dot Viewfinder Assembly Inset B: Tripod Legs and Accessory Tray Inset C: Altaz or Azimuth Mount 1. Eyepiece 2. Red dot viewfinder (see Inset A) 3. Red dot viewfinder alignment screws (see Inset A) 4.
- Page 5 The diagonal mirror reflects the light from 3. Place the optical tube (4) onto the Meade accessories, such as the Barlow lens. the optical tube to a more comfortable mounting bracket Fig. 2.
- Page 6 2. Tighten the drawtube thumbscrew to alignment screws to make any THE MOST IMPORTANT RULE hold the diagonal mirror securely. necessary refinements. We have one very important rule that 3. Slide the MA 25mm eyepiece (1) into you should always follow when using TO MOVE THE TELESCOPE diagonal mirror (13).
- Page 7 It will be easier to locate an skyscraper make excellent targets. Point the THE MEADE 4M COMMUNITY object using the viewfinder rather than optical tube so it lines up with your object.
- Page 8 Neutral density filters are available from you can see craters within craters. Some have found large objects in this area and Meade as an optional accessory and craters have bright lines about them. These they may increase the number of planets in...
- Page 9 Optional color filters help bring out detail are its moons. The four largest moons are Galilean moons of Jupiter (Fig. 5), plus a few and contrast of the planets. Meade offers a called the Galilean moons, after the others, but how many moons does Jupiter line of inexpensive color filters.
- Page 10 What’s Next? Beyond the Solar The color of stars sometimes can tell you very large telescope will reveal spiral or System: Once you have observed our about the age of a star and the temperature elliptical details. own system of planets, it’s time to that they burn at.
- Page 11 Go your library or check out the internet for viewing conditions. Use the high-power 9mm more information about astronomy. Learn Meade offers a complete line of eyepieces eyepiece to view details when observing the about the basics: light years, orbits, star for your telescope.
- Page 12 CD Roms. Meade on. It is important to dress warm or to have taping red cellophane over a flashlight lens.
- Page 13 2.4 meters (that’s ASTRONOMY RESOURCES and Sky and Telescope magazines. 7.8 feet across!). • The Meade 4M Community 6001 Oak Canyon, Irvine, CA 92618 HAVE A GOOD TIME, The focal ratio helps determine how fast the •...
- Page 14 But if you obtain other eyepieces, you eyepiece. You can tell that what the focal magnification is necessarily better—quite can calculate how much magnification length of your eyepiece is as it is always often the best view is with lower they have with your telescope.
- Page 15 3 parts distilled water to 1 part isopropyl economical price. Contact your Meade Dealer alcohol. You may also add 1 drop of or see the Meade catalog for more biodegradable dishwashing soap per pint information. Visit us on the web at of solution.
- Page 16 • Hubble Space Telescope Public Pictures: http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pictures.html product, or part thereof, found by Meade to of this warranty. Any implied warranties be defective, provided the defective part is Looking at or near the Sun will cause irreversible damage to your eye. Do not point this telescope at or near the Sun. Do not look through the telescope as it is moving.
- Page 17 OBSERVATION LOG OBSERVER: OBJECT NAME: DATE & TIME OBSERVED: CONSTELLATION: EYEPIECE SIZE: SEEING CONDITIONS: EXCELLENT GOOD POOR NOTES: DRAWING OF IMAGE (SAVE ORIGINAL - BE SURE TO MAKE COPIES)
- Page 18 OBSERVATION LOG OBSERVER: OBJECT NAME: DATE & TIME OBSERVED: CONSTELLATION: EYEPIECE SIZE: SEEING CONDITIONS: EXCELLENT GOOD POOR NOTES: DRAWING OF IMAGE...
- 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 1-800 92618 Meade Instruments Corporation 6001 Oak Canyon, Irvine, California...