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Telescope Buying Guide: Equatorial Mounts
Equatorial telescope mounts allow users to track the earth's rotation. Find out about equatorial mounts for telescopes in this free video on home astronomy from a telescope salesperson.
Forked Equatorial Telescope Mounts
Telescopes with fork equatorial mounts rotate to follow the arc of the sun, not in straight lines. Learn how to use equatorial mounts for a telescope from an observatory director in this free...
How to Align Telescopes on Equatorial Mounts
Telescopes should be aligned on equatorial mounts, often centering on the North Star, to ease following celestial bodies over time. Align Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopes with an observatory director...
The mount is an important part of any operational telescope. The mount helps track the movement of the stars or any moving body in the sky. Two types of mounts are widely used—altitude-azimuth (or...
To track stars through the Celestron Firstscope 114, you first must achieve rough polar alignment. Follow this procedure to accomplish the task.
Before setting up your Celestron Firstscope 114 Short Telescope's tripod, you will need to locate and unpack the tripod mounting hardware, the tripod accessory tray, the German equatorial mount...
Attaching the equatorial mount is part of the tripod setup for the the Celestron FirstScope 76EQ Telescope. By following these steps, you will be able to accomplish the task with little difficulty.
The setting circles of the equatorial mount of the Celestron Firstscope 76EQ Telescope make finding objects in the sky relatively easy. In order to use these setting circles, you must align the...
Before setting up your Celestron Firstscope 114 Short Telescope's tripod, you will need to locate and unpack the tripod mounting hardware, the tripod accessory tray, the German equatorial mount...
Attaching the equatorial mount to the tripod is part of the tripod setup for the Celestron Firstscope 114 Short Telescope. By following these steps, you will be able to accomplish the task with...
The setting circles of the equatorial mount make it easy to locate objects in the sky. To use these setting circles, you must first align the equatorial mount with the earth's axis of rotation.
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