Orion StarBlast II 4.5 Equatorial Reflector Telescope & 05662 1.25-Inch 13 Percent Transmission Moon Filter (Black)

hi I'm Ken with Orion telescopes and binoculars and now that you've got the star blast 24.5 fully setup and balanced let me show you how to use the telescope from aligning the finder to the way the equatorial mount works finding things in the sky using the different eyepieces and focusing up here just just to kind of familiarize yourself with the parts and and how it all works alright so let's get started the first step is the equatorial mount learning how it works this is the biggest sticking point I see with beginners because they're used to something like a photo tripod that moves left and right up and down an equatorial is a little more complicated than that and you really need to know how the motions work before you can start locating things and pointing a telescope in the sky I'm going to rotate it around a little bit so you can see the different parts of it you've got the right a