If you have read the Telescopes for CCD Imaging pages of the Equipment Basics section on this website, you know there are a variety of telescopes available.  If you have not, a quick glance at the product sections of the Starizona website will make it clear that there are a lot of scopes out there!  This makes it more difficult to give a specific set of instructions to cover all the possibilities.  However, the basic steps necessary for assembling a telescope for a night of CCD imaging are very similar for any type of scope.  In the following section, instructions are given for a generic setup.  Where appropriate, directions are given for a specific type of telescope and are clearly indicated.

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