Orion 09007 SpaceProbe 130ST Equatorial Reflector Telescope (Black) (Renewed)

all right one I'm Ken with Orion telescopes and binoculars and this is a video on some tips and techniques to get up and running and how to use the space probe one thirty St telescope so I'm going to assume you've read the manual you've familiarized yourself with the parts and you've got it - pretty much this level of assembly already so there's two things you need to do before you go outside and start reading the night sky the first is balancing the telescope and then the second is aligning the finder scope let's start with balancing the two lock knobs loosen them and you can move it east to west along the right ascension axis here and then north and south along the declination axis here to make sure it's balanced just tip the telescope off to the side don't let go and basically removing hands for a second see which direction the telescope is going to be falling see so right now I'm pr