library loaner telescope• sturdy mount • 8-24 mm celestron zoom eyepiece • user’s guide....
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Library Loaner Telescope
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Orion StarBlast 4.5 inch Reflector:
Not too small, not too large
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Mark Stowbridge, originator
New Hampshire Astronomical Society
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Features
• 4.5 inch
aperture
• lightweight
• sturdy mount
• 8-24 mm
Celestron Zoom
Eyepiece
• User’s Guide
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Star Forming Nebula: M42 in Orion
60x – full zoom 20x – lowest power These images of M42, the Orion Nebula, were
drawn while looking
through the Library Telescope
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Remove from shipping carton
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Screwing eyepiece in to Focuser
• tapping into focuser ring
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Stiffening the eyepiece travel by adding a 1/2 x 1/2
inch section of velcro, loop side
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Securing the
eyepiece
with set screws
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Making a protective end cap
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The collimation
screws are now
inaccessible to
unauthorized fingers.
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Moon port: 1-3/4 inch mask for bright lunar viewing
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2. Move the scope so that the target is centered in
the finder.
3. The target should be in the eyepiece
or just outside of it.
1. Use the zoom setting of 24 mm,
because it has the widest field of
view.
Locating a target
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2. Do not look at the Sun
with this Telescope!
Severe, permanent eye damage
will result!
The telescope is sturdy,
but keep these two important points in mind:
1. Never drop the telescope!
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Carry it by:
• grabbing the handle with one hand,
• grabbing the base and platform with the
other.
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Buckle up!
Seat belt the
scope as you
would a person.
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Announcing the program to the media
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Selected
lunar objects
in the
User’s Guide
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Monthly sky
positions of the
bright planets –
Crescent of Venus
Mars at its brightest
Jupiter
Saturn
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All sky maps
in the User’s Guide
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Detail maps
of selected
deep sky objects
(Star clusters and
Nebulae)
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Enjoy!
• Craters on the moon
• Crescent of Venus
• Large moons of Jupiter
• Rings of Saturn
• Star Clusters
• Nebulae