Meade II 60mm User Manual - Page 5

PST® Personal Solar Telescope Congratulations on your purchase! Meade Instruments has shipped your Coronado PST dedicated H-a telescope fully assembled and ready for use. Be sure to read the safety and cleaning instructions on page 4 and 13 before using your PST telescope. You can refer to the diagrams below for questions regarding the components of your system. Please read these instructions in full before setting up your new PST telescope and contact customer service if you have any questions. Mounting - Meade manufactures and sells separately three (3) mounts suitable for the PST: the MALTA™ mount (Manual ALTitude Azmuth), the DSM altazimuth computer controlled mount and the LXD75 German equatorial computer controlled mount. The threads on the bottom of the PST are compatible with any ¼ 20 thread. Most standard photographic mounts and mounting hardware can be used to provide a safe, stable, and reliable set up. This is also compatible with piggyback mounting systems. The Meade MALTA™ mount is a dedicated rugged, portable altazimuth mount designed for the PST. To use the MALTA mount, attach it to the PST using the two screws included with the MALTA mount Then secure the mount head to the base using the tension screw going through the top down into the base. The individual legs then thread into their holes. By loosening the tension screw one can adjust the azimuth or horizontal axis, retighten the tension screw to freeze that axis. The silver tension screw on the mount head will adjust the altitude or vertical axis when loosened and hold the PST firm when tightened down. Meade also makes a dovetail mounting block (product #DT-LXD75) compatible with the LXD75 mount and many other mounts on the market. WARNING! Do not insert your eyepiece until you have confirmed that the telescope is securely mounted and all filter elements attached and secured. Finding the Sun - The P.S.T.™ has been designed with an internal Sol Ranger™ Sun spotting device. There is a small pinhole on the front face of the P.S.T.™ body and a small opaque window on the top, near the eyepiece holder. When properly aligned on the Sun the pinhole will let in light that will be projected onto the opaque glass in the form of a small harmless ball. It is NOT necessary to put your eye up to the opaque glass. Best alignment will be found when this ball of light is near center but it is not always dead center. Adding a SM40/T-Max™ will obstruct the Sol Ranger- Do not put your eye up to the opaque glass. Tuning and Focusing the PST - Because different features on the Sun are moving toward or away from the Earth, their light is Doppler shifted off the hydrogen-alpha line of 6562.8 Angstroms, you will need to adjust the tuning slightly to get the best highcontrast views of the features you want to observe. The PST is equipped with a tuning mechanism that allows the user to adjust performance of the solar filter. The purpose of this adjustment is to compensate for possible detuning of the filter due to the change RichView™ tuning ring for internal Etalon Focusing Knob PST® PST® Personal Solar Telescope 5