CELESTRON 21045 114EQ Powerseeker Telescope Installation Guide

CELESTRON 21045 114EQ Powerseeker Telescope

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• Unpack your telescope and verify that all parts are present. Your PowerSeeker 114EQ includes a telescope tube with two tube rings attached, a tripod with a center leg brace, an equatorial mount, two eyepieces, a 3x Barlow lens, a fi finderscope, a 6 lb. counterweight, a counterweight bar, two slow motion cables, a 1/4-20 mounting stud on one tube ring (for cameras), a lens cleaning cloth, tripod multi-tool and an Allen wrench for secondary mirror adjustments, and an eyepiece accessory tray.
• To set up the tripod, spread the legs outward until they are fully extended and push down the center leg brace.
• Extend the center portion of each of the three tripod legs down about 6 to 12 inches. Use the tightening screw on each leg to secure the extended leg in place.
• Check to ensure that all three legs are the same height once extended to provide a level platform for the telescope.
• Place the eyepiece accessory tray on top of the tripod’s center leg brace. Thread the tray into the threaded hole in the center of the leg brace until it is fully seated.
• If necessary, rotate the accessory tray counterclockwise until the accessory holes are not covered by the leg brace arms as shown here.
• Locate the equatorial mount and place the base of the mount through the hole in the center of the tripod mounting platform.
• From underneath the tripod mounting platform, thread the attached mounting bolt into the hole on the bottom of the equatorial mount.
• Look up the approximate latitude of your observing site on the Internet or using a map. Then, thread the latitude adjustment screw into the equatorial mount until your latitude is indicated on the latitude scale.
• Locate the counterweight bar and counterweight. Slide the counterweight half way down the counterweight bar.
• Holding the counterweight in one hand, line up the counterweight bar with the mount. With your other hand, turn the counterweight bar until it is fully seated. Tighten the counterweight locking screw to hold the counterweight in place.
• Slide the chrome end of the slow motion control cables onto equatorial mount gear shaft. Be sure to line up the set screw over the fl at a spot on the shaft. Tighten screw to secure in place.
• The cable should attach to the Right Ascension axis and the other cable attaches to the Declination axis. Tighten the screw to secure the cable in place.
• Remove the tube rings from the telescope tube by loosening the latch knobs on the sides of each ring. Then remove the two black wingnuts on the bottom half of each tube ring.
• Align the holes on the bottom half tube rings with the holes on the mount and secure them in place with the black wing nuts removed in step 14.
• Place the telescope tube back into the bottom half tube rings, hinge the upper halves over the telescope tube, and secure the latch knobs holding the telescope tube in place. Make sure the focuser end of the telescope is be over the counterweight assembly.
• Remove the knurled nuts on the threaded posts at the focuser end of the telescope tube.
• Locate the fi nderscope and remove plastic caps on front and back of lens. Orient the fi nderscope so that the glass window is facing towards the front of the tube as shown here. Place fi nderscope over the posts on the tube and tighten it down with the knurled nuts.
• Loosen the set screws on the focuser so they do not obstruct the inner diameter of the focuser. Remove the plastic cap covering the end of the focuser.
• Insert the barrel of the 20mm eyepiece into the focuser and tighten the screws.
• Remove the lens cap from the front of the telescope. To observe, look through the eyepiece as shown above. Focus the image by turning the knobs below the focuser.
• For additional magnifi cation, you can use the included 3x Barlow Lens. Place the Barlow lens in the focuser in place of the eyepiece. Remove the cap from the Barlow lens.
• Next, insert the eyepiece into the Barlow and tighten the set screws to secure it in place.

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