HowTo's

Here you’ll find step-by-step guides for setting up our products and getting the very best out of your Newtonian telescope. Precision tuning isn’t rocket science. With a little care, the right tools, and a passion for astronomy, every hobbyist can achieve professional-grade performance. ✨

COMING SOON - Installation of the Carbon Tube

Instruction

Carbon Tube Installation

Guide: Collimation of a Newton Telescope with our easyCol-Camera

Tuning - General

This is your starting point for precision tuning a Newtonian telescope.

We’ll use the Skywatcher Quattro 150 as an example, but the principles apply to almost any design. Details may vary slightly between manufacturers – but the core idea stays the same: stability, precision, performance.

And here’s the good part: You don’t have to follow every step. Want to just swap out the secondary spider? Go for it. Skip the rest and move straight to what matters for you.

Tuning isn’t reserved for professionals – with the right guidance, every astronomer can unlock more from their telescope.

Tuning Step 1: Disassembling the telescope

Tuning Step 2: Line the tube with velour

COMING SOON!!! Heater for secondary mirror

Tuning Step 3

Tuning Step 3: Install heater for secondary mirror

COMING SOON!!! Blacken parts

Tuning Step 4

Tuning Step 4: Blacken parts of the OAZ and installation of the OAZ

Tuning Step 5: Installation of the new secondary and mounting of the secondary

Tuning Step 6: Installation of the primary mirror mask and main mirror cell

Documents

Welcome to our growing collection of downloadable PDF documents, featuring accessible and in-depth explorations of fascinating topics in astronomy and cosmology.

Whether you're a curious learner, a student, or a science enthusiast, you'll find practical explanations, real data examples, and elegant visualizations to deepen your understanding of the Universe.

Learn how to identify background galaxies and calculate their distances using redshift – explained step by step with real data from own observations and NASA Extragalactic Database (NED).