How Do You Align The Viewfinder Of Your Meade LX90 Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope?
To make sure you are looking at the right stars, align the viewfinder on your Meade LX90 Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope. If you have fully assembled the telescope correctly before starting, it will only take a couple of screw turns to achieve your objective. Set up the telescope in an open area. The viewfinder has a vertical t-track on the bottom of the unit. Slide this into the t-receiver slot on your telescope. Insert the 26-mm lens into the viewfinder. Loosen all the locking screws on your telescope. It should now rotate with little to no resistance. Aim the telescope at a known earthbound body at least 300 yards in front of you. Place the body in the center of the telescope lens. Relieve the pressure on the screws on the bottom of the viewfinder to aim the viewfinder at the body on which you centered the telescope’s main viewing lens. Then retighten the screws, maintaining the concentricity of the object in the viewfinder. The viewfinder is now centered and ready for terrestrial obje
