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Instruction manual

Omegon® Advanced 5” & 6” EQ-320

English version January 2020 Rev. A Art. No. 61021 & 61022

1268 - EN - Omegon Advanced 5” and 6” EQ-320

Summary of Contents for EQ-320

Page 1: ...r than for private use is expressly prohibited Subject to alterations and errors All texts images and trademarks are the property of nimax GmbH 1 5 Instruction manual Omegon Advanced 5 6 EQ 320 Englis...

Page 2: ...ed in the right ascension hour axis The first steps towards short exposure astrophotography are therefore possible This means that the Moon Jupiter and Saturn can be tracked The mount sits on an exten...

Page 3: ...levelling Now place the tripod tray 17 onto the middle of the tripod spreader 16 and twist until it engages The Omegon EQ 320 mount can now be fitted to the tripod Use the tripod centre screw 7 to se...

Page 4: ...also referred to as the hour axis To do this bring the counterweight rod into the horizontal position Counterweights and optical tube assembly are now facing one another horizontally Now carefully re...

Page 5: ...ppears to contact the upper edge of the tube clamp the axes again Please never fasten too tightly Now position the object in the middle of the eyepiece field of view using the manual fine focus adjust...