-
Meade Meade RB-70 - page 1
Looking at or near the Sun will cause irreversable damage to your eye. Do not point this telescope at or near the Sun. Do not look through the telescope as it is moving. MEADE INSTRUCTION MANUAL 70mm | 2.75" Altazimuth Refracting T elescope RB-70 www .meade.com ...
-
Meade Meade RB-70 - page 2
WARNING! Never use a Meade ® T elescope 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. Do not point the telescope at or near the Sun. Do not look through the telescope or SmartF ...
-
Meade Meade RB-70 - page 3
1 INTRODUCTION Y our telesc ope is an ex c ell ent beginner’ s instrument, and is designed to observe objects in the sky and also on land. It can be your personal window on the univ erse or allows y ou to intimately study the behavior of nes ting bir ds on a distant hillside. The tel escope is shipped with the follo wing parts: • Optical tube ? ...
-
Meade Meade RB-70 - page 4
FIGURE 1 Figur e 1 : Meade 70-RB Altazimuth Refracting T el escope Inset A : Red Dot Viewfinder Assembl y Inset B : T ripod Legs and Acces sory Tr ay Inset C : Altaz or Azimuth Mount 1. Eyepiece 2. Red dot viewfinder (see Inset A) 3. Red dot viewfinder alignment scr ews (see Inset A) 4. Optical tube assembl y 5. V ertical locking lev er 6. Horizont ...
-
Meade Meade RB-70 - page 5
Looking at or near the Sun will cause irreversable damage to your eye. Do not point this telescope at or near the Sun. Do not look through the telescope as it is moving. ASSEMBLE YOUR TRIPOD The tripod is the basic support for y our tel escope. Its height may be adjusted so that you can view c omfortabl y . Note: Number in brackets, e.g., (3), r ef ...
-
Meade Meade RB-70 - page 6
Looking at or near the Sun will cause irreversable damage to your eye. Do not point this telescope at or near the Sun. Do not look through the telescope as it is moving. alignment scr ews to make any neces sary r efinements. TO MO VE THE TELESCOPE Y our telesc ope is altazimuth mounted. Altazimuth is just a c omplicated way of saying that your tel ...
-
Meade Meade RB-70 - page 7
Looking at or near the Sun will cause irreversable damage to your eye. Do not point this telescope at or near the Sun. Do not look through the telescope as it is moving. star s and planets. Read about astr onomers of old. Many of them had tel escope no bigger than the one you ar e using right now . Galileo, who is one of the first as tr onomers to ...
-
Meade Meade RB-70 - page 8
Looking at or near the Sun will cause irreversable damage to your eye. Do not point this telescope at or near the Sun. Do not look through the telescope as it is moving. object to observe the firs t time you go out at night. Pick a night when the Moon is a cr escent. No shadows ar e seen during a full Moon, making it appear flat and uninter esting. ...
-
Meade Meade RB-70 - page 9
Looking at or near the Sun will cause irreversable damage to your eye. Do not point this telescope at or near the Sun. Do not look through the telescope as it is moving. and ar e sometimes called gas giants. If they had gr own much bigger, they may have become st ars. Pluto is made mostly of ic e. Jupiter is quite inter esting to observe. Y ou can ...
-
Meade Meade RB-70 - page 10
Looking at or near the Sun will cause irreversable damage to your eye. Do not point this telescope at or near the Sun. Do not look through the telescope as it is moving. Other star s to look f or are multipl e stars. V ery often, you can find doubl e (or binary) star s, stars that ar e very close together . These star s orbit each other . What do y ...
-
Meade Meade RB-70 - page 11
Looking at or near the Sun will cause irreversable damage to your eye. Do not point this telescope at or near the Sun. Do not look through the telescope as it is moving. will see that the moons ar e in a differ ent position every night. As y ou get better at drawing, try mor e challenging sights, lik e a crater syst em on the moon or even a nebula. ...
-
Meade Meade RB-70 - page 12
Looking at or near the Sun will cause irreversable damage to your eye. Do not point this telescope at or near the Sun. Do not look through the telescope as it is moving. Place the object to be vie wed at the edge of the field and, without touching the tel escope, watch it drift thr ough the field to the other side befor e r epositioning the tel esc ...
-
Meade Meade RB-70 - page 13
Looking at or near the Sun will cause irreversable damage to your eye. Do not point this telescope at or near the Sun. Do not look through the telescope as it is moving. Surf the W eb and visit your local library : The internet cont ains a huge amount of astr onomical information, both f or children and adults. Check out astr onomy books from your ...
-
Meade Meade RB-70 - page 14
Looking at or near the Sun will cause irreversable damage to your eye. Do not point this telescope at or near the Sun. Do not look through the telescope as it is moving. Look at the specifications. Y ou will see that the foc al length of y our scope is 700mm. Let’ s say that you have obtained a 13mm ey epiece. Y ou can tell that what the f ocal l ...
-
Meade Meade RB-70 - page 15
Looking at or near the Sun will cause irreversable damage to your eye. Do not point this telescope at or near the Sun. Do not look through the telescope as it is moving. tel escope tube, resulting in a mor e comf or- tabl e observing position in most cases. Additional Eyepiec es (1.25" barr el diameter): F or higher or lower magnifications wit ...
-
Meade Meade RB-70 - page 16
Looking at or near the Sun will cause irreversable damage to your eye. Do not point this telescope at or near the Sun. Do not look through the telescope as it is moving. MEADE CONSUMER SOLUTIONS If you have a ques tion conc erning your tel escope, call Meade Instruments Consumer Solutions Department at (800) 626-3233. Consumer Solutions Departmant ...
-
Meade Meade RB-70 - page 17
OBSERVER: OBJEC T NAME: DA TE & TIME OBSERVED: CONSTELLA TION: EYEPIECE SIZE: SEEING CONDITIONS: EXCELLENT GOOD POOR NO TES: DRAWING OF IMA GE (SA VE ORIGINAL - BE SURE T O MAKE COPIES) OBSERV A TION LOG ...
-
Meade Meade RB-70 - page 18
OBSERVER: OBJEC T NAME: DA TE & TIME OBSERVED: CONSTELLA TION: EYEPIECE SIZE: SEEING CONDITIONS: EXCELLENT GOOD POOR NO TES: DRAWING OF IMA GE OBSERV A TION LOG ...
-
Meade Meade RB-70 - page 19
...
-
Meade Meade RB-70 - page 20
Looking at or near the Sun will cause irreversable damage to your eye. Do not point this telescope at or near the Sun. Do not look through the telescope as it is moving. www .meade.com Meade Instr uments Corporation 6001 Oak Canyon, Ir vine, Califor nia 926 18 1-800 626-3233 ...
Do you have a question concerning Meade Meade RB-70?
Use the form below
If you did not solve your problem by using a manual Meade Meade RB-70, ask a question using the form below. If a user had a similar problem with Meade Meade RB-70 it is likely that he will want to share the way to solve it.