TwinStar 76mm Cassegrain Telescope Assembly Manual

Assembly Guide : 76mm Cassegrain Telescope

INTRODUCTION

Congratulations! You have bought a wonderful telescope. This is a precision optical

instrument, and you have many wonderful evenings of observing the night sky ahead of you. This
guide is to help you assemble your telescope properly.

We know that many people are visually oriented and that pictures of the assembly process are
helpful. We have put this guide together to help you assemble your telescope for your first night of
observing.

Once your telescope is assembled and ready to go, the rest is up to you. Learning astronomy is
all the fun anyhow! So let's get started . . .

ASSEMBLING THE TELESCOPE

Necessary Parts

For Assembly:

1x Telescope Tube

1x Telescope Tripod

2x Eyepieces (one is aached

to the telescope)

Figure 1 – Extending the tripod legs.

Step 1

Remove the tripod from the box, and
extend the legs as shown in Figure 1
below.

Step 2

Unscrew the handle to loosen the
up-down motion of the tripod. Set the
tripod level and screw the handle in to
tighten as show in Figure 2.

Step 3

Figure 2 – Leveling the tripod.

Use the hand screw beneath the tripod’s
mounting point to screw the telescope in
to place. The viewing end of the tripod
should be facing away from the handle.

Figure 3 - Mounting the telescope.