ORION TELESCOPES & BINOCULARS Equatorial Mount 9233 Instruction Manual

7, 7 To find Polaris in the night sky, look north and find the Big Dipper. Extend an imaginary line from the two “Pointer Stars” in the bowl of the Big Dipper. Go about 5 times the distance between those stars and you’ll reach Polaris, which lies within 1° of the north celestial pole (NCP). Fig…

4, 4 7. Now, with the counterweight lock knob loose, grip the counter- weight with one hand and thread the shaft into the equatorial mount (at the base of declination axis) with the other hand as far as it will go.Position the counterweight about halfway up the shaft and tighten the counterweight l…

6, 6 2. Loosen the R.A. lock knob and rotate the telescope until the R.A. value from the star atlas matches the reading on the R.A. setting circle. Retighten the lock knob. Most setting circles are not accurate enough to put an object dead-center in your finder scope’s field of view, but the…

1, ORION TELESCOPES & BINOCULARS Equatorial Mount 9233 IN 100 Rev. A 0998 Providing Exceptional Consumer Optical Products Since 1975 Customer Support (800) 676-1343 E-mail: [email protected] Corporate Offices (831) 763-7000 P.O. Box 1815, Santa Cruz, CA 95061 INSTRUCTION MANUAL Orion ® Equatorial Mount #9233 With Hardwood Tripod …

5, 5 To find Polaris in the sky, look north and locate the pattern of the Big Dipper (Figure 3, page 7). The two stars at the end of the “bowl” of the Big Dipper point right to Polaris. If you do not have a clear view of Polaris from your observing site, you will not be able to ac…