Telescope Setup, Polar Alignment, and Use for Beginners 

Were you able to follow my directions and get polar aligned? Have something you're having trouble with? Let me know if you have problems or questions and I'll try to reply back to everyone.

Thank you so much for this video, it was the first video that I actually understood

Thank you very much for this helpful explanation of the puzzling multi-axis system! I definitely was fighting the design before; thanks for showing how to balance and move it. Total revelation! : )

Thank you! Just got mine and it's great to have a tutorial to follow!

This is such a good video and thanks for explaining everything so clearly. I've had my telescope for a while so I've had to struggle through all these stages - if only this video had existed back then! I've never bothered polar aligning but I realised it's limiting my results so tonight is the night and your explanations will be in my head as I do it. Also, I never knew I could rotate the tube! I've always just thought, 'Ok, I can't look at this part of the sky because I'm too short to see through the eyepiece when it's sticking straight up like that.' Doh. :)

Finally I found a good Video that helps me understand that kind of telescope. I have a Celestron very similar to that one. Thanks!

Thank you, finally a good video with a simple explanation for alignment

'Just back from getting a free reflector from a Craig's List ad. I'm a few minutes into your video and I've doubled my knowledge. thanks, 'thumbs up and I've subbed

I have been out of this hobby for over 40 years...to much time working and raising kids with my bride.Now in my 70's I have plenty of time unless my doctors start night shifts. So when I jumped back in I purchased a C electron 127 equally but not using an equal much before I needed to preschool myself. I did look at many RU-vid clips before yours and I wish I watched yours first. I found your presentation easy to understand and follow by you. giving a hands on easy to follow viewing.. So in a few weeks my tube will arrive and it will be a restart of a place I want more info on as with my beliefs I will hopefully will be smiling down upon my family. One sky holds so many secrets and holds so many mysteries that would it not be so nice to solve at least one? So to end I thank you enough to have hit the like and subscribe buttons! Thanks again for your time and class! The Fish up in snow covered and cold NY State ( Orange County )

Thank you! I just bought our first telescope and it has an equatorial mount and this by far has been the most helpful tutorial I have found to date.

Thank you for this video. I'm just starting out (mainly because my son wants to become an astromaster), and i learned quite a few things from your video. I am in the south, but not Australia 😂

The best setup tutorial I have seen so far.

Thank you! My dad gave me this telescope and this is the best advice I could find on how to get it set up.

Thank you thank you thank you!!!! I had been frustrated for a while using this equatorial mount and didn't quite get how to locate a star I can't see! This helped me a lott thank you sir!

Great video! We’re just getting started with the hobby and the explanations were great!

Many thanks! not used my telescope for years and that was the perfect revision course!

Well I gotta thank you for making this video, after watching dozens yours has literally rang every bell I need to set up my Celestron Astromaster 130ed md. I bought the scope for fun but wasnt having much until now! again...thanks a lot!

Thank you so much. I've been playing along with your video in daylight, can't wait to get set up tonight! I'm really excited!!!

Thats the best explained equatorial tutorial vid I've ever seen. Tomorrow my 130mm skywatcher Eq2 will arrive.... Thank you for your helpfull information.

I have watched 8 of these videos and learned more from yours....thank you for posting this!

Thank you sir for filling in the gaps.. Very informative..

Wow, this is the most complete video I’ve found on Newtonian Equatorials. Got a Celestron 114 for Christmas about eight years ago and am just now really learning how to use it. Thanks a-lot.

This has been an amazing help for me, I purchased my first EQ scope today and I’m feeling pretty confident now! Just need to wait for some clear skys 🤞🏼

Excellent video! It helps alot to get uncomplicated instructions to setup a telescope.

Thanks for the video! I finally fully understand how my Celestron mount works and how to align it correctly! Congratulations on the very clear explanation!

I am a beginner and I appreciated very much your guidance. Congratulations for the clarity!

Such an amazing way to explain the basics. Really helped a lot. Thanks man!

This is the first explanation iv actually understood 😂 fantastic tutorial sir. 🤜🤛

Your video rocked I was about ready to give up thank you so much

Great video. We just got the Orion Observer 90 mm reflector telescope, and we use your video to guide us. Otherwise, we just gave up. The booklet instructions aren't very clear. Thanks again.

Very, very helpful! Am following your instructions to the letter, and in a couple of hours will see the results. Thanks for taking the time to walk us through it!

Hey Chris what a great tutorial . I have had a telescope for many years but had to revisit some of the setup points you have gone through before i can show my grandchildren basic night sky objects , A super video thanks very much Steve in the UK,

Thank you for brightening things up in my messy mind.. get a better understanding of how to get things started especially when you're begginner.. 2 👍👍

Thanks for your very clear explanation of how to setup the mount. As I'm in Australia I'll need to align with the southern pole but I now have a much better knowledge of how to setup and use this type of mount.

Amazing explanation, thank you! Please post more vids, you're a natural teacher.

Brilliant video! I'm new to stargazing and you have made it sound so simple compared to a lot of other videos out there.

This was so much help to a Newbie. Thank you.

Lot information even to begin use the Polaris, professor! Not so easy! Thank you though!

Thank you for the great video. You are right about a Equatorial mount being a hobby killer. But I am determined to get mine aligned and tracking probably. Your guide help me achieve that goal. Clear Skies,

Very helpful, I’m very new to this and have an Astro tech 130, so all of what you covered is helpful.

Excellent video! You filled in all the gaps I had in my knowledge of how to use my equatorial mount telescope and get it polar aligned. Cannot wait to go out later this evening and play with it again :)

I have my first telescope and have a had a few struggles to set it up, thanks to your lesson I think I might just have worked it out.

Great video!! Thanks so much. I wish the manufacturer had something like this that came with the telescope.

Fantastic, even though I am in Australia 🇦🇺. I have just bought a used scope and you have dispelled a lot of fear.

Thank you so much for this video. You anticipated all my questions and then answered them.

Brilliant! Thank you, that made it so much clearer! I can now align my scope, AND as a bonus, I now know that the ring in the middle isn't broken! 😂 Great vid, happy to subscribe!

Just got the Celestron 127EQ for Christmas and had no idea how to set it up after the initial build. This video was excellent and showed so much in just 20 minutes. I feel ready to try it out tonight now! Very many thanks for taking the time to make it :-)

Excellent tutorial! Thank you. It's definitely worth to learn how to use equatorial mounts.

wow excellent video. you sir are a good teacher. thanks

Very helpful and well explained

Excellent tutorial. Good job. Thank you

Thanks for posting such a great video. You covered all the minor details which a beginner is looking for. I particularly liked the way you explained , the sequence and context was very easy to follow .

Thanks for the advice.. Well Explained and easy to understand on how to set up newtonian telescope for all beginners . Nice!

Now I have clarity, thank you!

Thank you so much for this video !! Really helped me hugely !!

Excellent video, spent a long time finding one that made sense

Just bought the same Meade Polaris 130 eq as you used in the video. Seems to be a nicely made scope, obviously it's on the budget end of the scale as telescopes go but the optics look very sharp at that price. The only complaint I have is with the stand, the mount itself seems fine but the stand is quite wobbly. I found that the majority of the movement is in the plastic ends fitted to the legs where they join onto the mount, the metal leg is simply pushed into a plastic socket and secured with two little pop rivets, of course it's not a tight fit so there's lots of movement present in the assembly. However with mine I've been able to eliminate virtually of this movement by pouring epoxy resin into the joint, it now feels considerably more stable, even if there's a bit of a wind up the scope stays pretty much wobble free in the eyepiece. Hope this helps anyone else who's got the same scope. Cheers, good video BTW 👍😉

Excellent tutorial

Easy to understand first class job

I found it really annoying to do and the manual I had was hard to undersand. You made it all very clear thank you so much

Excellent video man thank you!!

Thank you dude, very helpful and give me a giggle as well, keep it up!

Wow dear, knowledge video 💖💖💖,🙏 thank you 😊❤️ for sharing 🎁🎁🎁🎁🎉🎉🎉

So helpful. You're a star! Thank you!

What a great and informative video, thank you very much for this valuable informations. Greetings from Costa Rica!

This video was amazing and so informative. Thank you.

Helpful! Blessings from the FW Texas Cultural District.

Thank you!

Thank you so much for great video.

Thank you very, very much! Very useful and clear explanation.

Good job

Great video! Thanks for sharing!

Very helpful! Thank you 👍

Thanks for the video! It was excelent!

Thanks from France for your very clear explanations ! Very helpful to help me set up my equatorial mount. Cheers

Excellently explained! Thank you!

Very nice video. Thanks.

Great vid dude. Very clear and useful.

Thank you so much. VERY helpful and easy to follow.

Good helpfull video ❤

I really appreciate the video u made, great teaching, I hope you get more subs because your worth watching...thanks.

Excellent video - very clear. Thank you

Perfect!

Nice explanations. Thanks heaps.

Great video, looking forward to giving it a shot, thanks

Thank you thank you thank you.

Great video bud

BRILLIANT ! thank you !

This is really helpful thanks

Subscribed, great explanation, best one I've found 👍

Thank you.

such a good video thank you.

Great video very helpful to me . Thank you.

Very useful. Thanks!

Thanks for the video!

Thank you so much for the video! It’s very clear with so many useful tips!

Please make more videos!!

Great video! At 12:03 the tube rings screws were not fully tighten. What was the reason?

Thank you.. I am very new at this and was using only my camera, but I am struggling to balance the telescope when I attach the camera!!! any advice on this? I have a Nikon 850d.. which I guess is very heavy for the telescope.. or maybe it’s just me who can’t figure it out. Help!!!!

Very helpful! Question: If my mount is level, set to true north and altitude adjustment is properly set - would that be good enough for visual observations? I'll try both methods as soon as the clouds clear up!