Meade TELESTAR RB-70 Instruction Manual

8, object to observe the first time you go out at night. Pick a night when the Moon is a crescent. No shadows are seen during a full Moon, making it appear flat and uninteresting. Look for different features on the Moon. The most obvious features are craters. In fact you can see craters w…

18, OBSERVER: OBJECT NAME: DATE & TIME OBSERVED: CONSTELLATION: EYEPIECE SIZE: SEEING CONDITIONS: EXCELLENT GOOD POOR NOTES: DRAWING OF IMAGE OBSERVATION LOG Telestar RB-70.qxd 10/15/08 3:23 PM Page 18 …

9, and are sometimes called gas giants. If they had grown much bigger, they may have become stars. Pluto is made mostly of ice. Jupiter is quite interesting to observe. You can see bands across the face of Jupiter. The more time you spend observing these bands, the more detail you will be able…

6, alignment screws to make any necessary refinements. TO MOVE THE TELESCOPE Your telescope is altazimuth mounted. Altazimuth is just a complicated way of saying that your telescope moves up and down and from side to side. Other telescopes may be mounted in different ways. 1. Slightly loosen the v…

15, telescope tube, resulting in a more comfor- table observing position in most cases. Additional Eyepieces (1.25" barrel diameter): For higher or lower magnifications with the telescopes that accommodate 1.25" eyepieces, Meade Series 4000 Super Plössl eyepieces, available in a w…