FOCUSSING AND TARGET SIGHTING
• When sighting the target, strong light shining directly into the objective lens may cause the instrument to malfunction. Protect the objective lens from direct light by attaching the lens hood. Observe to the same point of the reticle when the telescope face is changed.
PROCEDURE
1. Focus on the reticle
Look through the telescope eyepiece at a bright and featureless background.
Turn the eyepiece screw clockwise, then counterclockwise little by little until just before the reticle image becomes focussed.
Using these procedures, frequent reticle refocussing is not necessary since your eye is focussed at infinity.
2. Sight the target
Loosen the vertical and horizontal clamps, then use the sighting collimator to bring the target into the field of view. Tighten both clamps.
3. Focus on the target
Turn the telescope focussing ring to focus on the target.
Turn the vertical and horizontal fine motion
screws to align the target with the reticle.
The last adjustment of each fine motion screw should be in the clockwise direction.
4. Readjust the focus until there is no parallax Readjust the focus with the focussing ring until there is no parallax between the target image and the reticle.
Eliminating parallax
This is the relative displacement of the target image with respect to the reticle when the
observer’s head is moved slightly before the eyepiece.
Parallax will introduce reading errors and must be removed before observations are taken. Parallax can be removed by refocussing the reticle.