How to use a Telescope, A Beginners Guide. Learn to Setup and Use Equatorial Mount.

all right so you have just recently bought a telescope and you're trying to understand how to use it how to work with an equatorial mount you've come to the right place welcome to lemon smart guys my name is Michelle and today we'll be looking at how to use the telescope and by hopefully now you have set it up in this looking form so we'll be looking at it from two perspective number one what are the moving parts of the telescope which you need to understand before you actually go out and start observing and number two how to set it up the right way so that you have the most pleasure observing the night sky all right so let's start by looking at the moving point of the telescope there are four points which you need to understand and they're really important number one is the azimuth axis or in plain English we can call it the right or left axis so this one sits at the very right pace and it can be loosened or tightened using this screw right here so I'll loosen it up a little bit and then we can move it towards right or left so you usually do it to point it towards North or South Pole whatever you find themselves alright number two is the latitude axis this is the one which you use to pole align the telescope based upon your location so let's say whatever suburb you're in you would Google its latitude for that particular suburb and you would make the latitude of your telescope exactly aligned with that number three is the right ascension here moves this way the Third Point and number four is the declination if they don't move too easily it's because the knobs are really tight here you can loosen it up or tighten it up so that it just you know just doesn't go everywhere and if you further need to understand what is right Ascension and declination I recommend you check out my other video which I will link down in the description below alright so now that we understand what are the four moving parts of the telescope let's jump on to the point number two which are how to balance the telescope and how to align define a scope which in my opinion is the most important part of understanding the telescope balancing from the counterweight so what we need to do is we need to loosen the wall here slightly and we never believed the telescope it should stay there to make sure that this is well balanced and you can see we're just only moving the right ascension coordinate here so at the moment it's it's terribly balanced so what I'm going to do is I'll loosen it up from here and make sure the security screw is here so that you don't accidentally drop the weight on your foot so I will kind of move it slightly so that it seems balanced so as you can see after adjusting the counterweight RA is just not moving so wherever I just leave it it just stays there I check it on the other side too just to make sure the weights are all good all right so once that's done we need to balance the scope which is the declination coordinate I usually like to put the RA on this angle like a flat angle and I'm going to tighten the screw for RA and I will lose the screw for declination here so you need to make sure the scope kind of stays in the middle as you can see it's kind of Leaning here so we need to move the telescope a little bit back so I will loosen the screw on these clamps here and we'll just move it slightly back and we done all right now let's talk about the notorious finderscope and this in my opinion is arguably the most important aspect I mean you can get everything right in setting up the telescope and you've not aligned this perfectly or it's a little bit off or you just knocked it while you were trying to observe through it you would not be able to see anything through your eyepiece because on high resolutions it's just really really difficult to find a planet or a star so what is finder scope first of all so this is like a very low magnification small scope which sits on your main scope and this if you see through this there will be like a cross-section in it what you need to do during the daytime i de lis is take the telescope out and look through the finder scope and look through your eyepiece and make sure that the cross-section in your finder scope shows exactly in the eyepiece let's say you can see one thing in the eyepiece but you can't see that in the finder scope what you would need to do is you would need to adjust these little screws align it to that particular object which you're trying to see through I piece and once that's done just make sure that this is firmly stable because when I was starting off there were times when this was kind of loosely there and I waited all day and it was nighttime I was trying to observe it and while I was trying to look through it I just got knocked off and it just leads to frustration and nothing else so I hope this information puts you in a way better position than most people who are starting in amateur astronomy especially who are actually in very beginners with the telescope if you want to find out more about polar alignment I recommend you check out my other videos and while you're on that way please hit that subscribe button and I'll see you on that video would you like to see more of this content give it a big thumbs up and hit that subscribe button and I'll see you guys in the next one [Music]

Channel: LayMan Smart

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Length: 5min 44sec (344 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 11 2020