Tasco 302911 manual

[Nora]

looking to obtain a copy of the Tasco 302911 manual.  please advise where we can locate this.  thank you

[bobro]

Welcome! 

Here is a link to a very similar telescope and mount if you can't find the Tasco one: https://www.telescope.com/assets/product_files/instructions/29260_01-09.pdf

[lenscap]

Hi Nora, welcome to SGL.

This manual includes instructions for a very similar telescope & mount.

https://inter-static.skywatcher.com/upfiles/en_download_caty01316546551.pdf

Hope this helps.

Edit; this one is specific to yourtype of scope.

SW114-500Manual.pdf

Edited December 2, 2019 by lenscap

[Alan64]

The Orion(of California) 114mm f/4 Newtonian on an EQ-1 mount, and nearly identical to your Tasco(Tanzutsu) kit...

Manual... Orion 114mm f4 EQ.pdf

Videos...

Set-up... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuJYoah4QU8

How-to-use... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3DbAz_QKvA

The Orion kit is identical to the Sky-Watcher "Skyhawk" 1145P...

https://www.firstlightoptics.com/reflectors/skywatcher-skyhawk-1145p.html

The telescope is configured for low-power, wide-field views.  With the aid of 2x and 3x barlows, you can reach the higher magnifications associated with lunar, planetary and double-star observations.

However, the focusser of the Tasco telescope, the visual-back specifically, is of the .965" format.  Current, standard, extra eyepieces are of the larger, 1.25" format.  You may find it difficult if not very in integrating the newer, 1.25" eyepieces with the telescope.  The drawtube of the focusser appears to be able to support the use of the 1.25" format... 

...but the opening of the visual-back, where the eyepieces fit and are secured with thumbscrews, is .965" in diameter.  It can be removed, but finding a 1.25" visual-back to fit the drawtube may prove more trouble than it's worth.  There are extra .965" eyepieces available online, yet are few and far between.  The .965" format has been abandoned for a few decades now.

Incidentally, I do not recommend f/4 Newtonian kits, whether a Dobson or tripod-mounted, to those first starting out.

Edited December 3, 2019 by Alan64