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Originally Posted by Quark
Hi Mark,
Turn your Telrad on and put your longest FL hence lowest magnification eyepiece in your scope. With your head back about 12" from the Telrad, ounce you are aligned with it you should see some bright red rings that appear out at infinity against the sky. Reduce the power to your Telrad by rotating the switch slowly back toward the off position until you can just see the red rings.
Stand back and look for a bright star, use the Telrad to align the red rings over the bright star. If you look through the wide field eyepiece you may now see that star or maybe not, even if you cannot see it in the eyepiece it should not be far out of view. Gently move the scope until you have the bright star in the centre of the field of view. Now look back through your Telrad and use the three adjusting screws on the back of it to adjust the red rings until they are over the bright star.
When you have achieved this then try the same procedure again with a mid range FL eyepiece for finer adjustment of the Telrad. That should about do it, now using a star chart or Star Wheel star hop to the objects you want to observe.
Regards
Trevor
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A lot of times I use "the moon" instead of a bright star...at least to get the initial alignment as it is easier to find! Then as Trevor suggests increase magnification and adjust until it is aligned.
