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Assembling Your Telescope

Aligning the Finderscope

Balancing Telescope

Using the Equatorial Mount (EQ5)

Using the Oculars

Proper Care for Your Telescope

Operating Your Telescope

Tripod Set up

Telescope Assembly

Finderscope Assembly

Eyepiece Assembly

Suggested Reading

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Read the entire instructions 

carefully before beginning. Your telesope should 

be assembled during daylight hours. Choose a

large, open area to work to allow room for all 

parts to be unpackaged.

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efore you begin

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Sky-Watcher telescopes, or articles concerning any Sky-Watcher 

products, please call us at 604-241-7027. 

Canada:              604-270-2813 

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Outside Canada: Please contact your dealer for 

                            technical support.

T

echnical Support 

Never use your telescope to look directly at the sun. 

Permanent eye damage will result. Use a proper solar 

filter for viewing the sun. When observing the sun, 

place a dust cap over your finderscope to protect it 

from exposure. Never use an eyepiece-type solar filter 

and never use your telescope to project sunlight onto 

another surface, the internal heat build-up will damage 

the telescope optical elements.

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aution! 

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echnical Specifications

Optical Design

Diameter

Focal Length

f/ratio

Highest Practical 

Power

Fainest Steller 

Magnitude

Resolving Power 

(arc sec.)

Finderscope

Focuser Diameters

Mount Type

Slow Motion 

Control

Accessory Tray

Tripod

Tube Dimensions

Tripod Height

Total Net Weight

Shipping Weight

Catadioptric-Newtonian

150mm

1000mm

f/6.7

300x

13.6

0.8

6x30

1.25"

Equatorial

RA & DEC

Large

Aluminum

19cm x 53cm

71-123cm

21kgs

27kgs

Summary of Contents for 1501EQ5

Page 1: ...t Screws Eyepiece Focus Knob Piggyback Bracket Telescope Main Body 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Mounting Plate R A Control Knob Polorscope Holder not shown Altitude Adjustment T bolts Azimuth Adjustment...

Page 2: ...PM PST Outside Canada Please contact your dealer for technical support T echnical Support Never use your telescope to look directly at the sun Permanent eye damage will result Use a proper solar filte...

Page 3: ...tely Retighten knobs to secure ATTACHING MOUNT TO TRIPOD 4 1 Stand tripod upright 2 Align metal dowel on the tropid head with the gap between the azimuthal adjustment knobs underneath the mount Tighte...

Page 4: ...ove the telescope tube from its plastic packaging 2 Remove the tube rings from telescope by releasing their thumb nuts and opening their hinges 3 Using the bolts provided fasten the tube rings to the...

Page 5: ...our telescope make sure that your tripod is balanced and on a stable surface For photography point the telescope in the direction you will be taking photos before preforming the balancing steps R A Ba...

Page 6: ...dapt to ambient moisture conditions P roper care for your telescope Fig h Using the EQ5 mount The equatorial mount has controls for both conventional altitude up down and azimuthal left right directio...

Page 7: ...3rd edition 2000 A Manual Of Advanced Celestial Photography by Brad D Wallis and Robert W Provin Cambridge University Press New York 1984 Astrophotography An Introduction by H J P Arnold Sky Publishi...

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