Įquatorial Alignment, Celestial Coordinates. Īppendix A: Equatorial (Polar) Alignment. Īdvanced AutoStar Operation.Īdding Observing Sites. Įntering Data, Moving Through AutoStar’s Menus.
Initializing AutoStar for the First Time.Īutomatic Alignment. Īstronomical Observing, Observe the Moon. Observing by Moving the Telescope Manually. “LNT ,” “SmartFinder,” “Deep Sky Imager,” “LPI,” and “Tonight’s Best” are trademarks of Meade Instruments Corporation. Patent Office and in principal countries throughout the world. ® The name "Meade," “ETX,” “AutoStar” and the Meade logo are trademarks registered with the U.S. If you are anxious to use your telescope for the first time, read the QUICK-START GUIDE on pages 4 and 5. Improperly installed batteries void your Meade warranty. If these precautions are not followed, batteries may explode, catch fire or leak.
Do not install batteries backwards or mix new and used batteries. Follow battery manufacturer's precautions. Children should always have adult supervision while observing.Ĭaution: Use care to install batteries in the orientation indicated by illustration in the battery slots of the battery compartment. Do not look through the telescope as it is moving. Do not point the telescope at or near the Sun.
Eye damage is often painless, so there is no warning to the observer that damage has occurred until it is too late.
The third option in the driver settings - unchanged, means that the driver will not reprogram you hand controller to a specific precision.A Meade ® ETX ® PE Telescope to look at the Sun! Looking at or near the Sun will cause instant and irreversible damage to your eye. High precision is when you issue a slew to target command the telescope will first slew to a nearby bright star to help guide the scope in with more accuracy. In the driver settings there is an option to change the pointing precision. For scopes that are not supported, this value does nothing. Changing this value will upload the predefined guide rate when the driver makes the first connection to the telescope. For these scopes the guide rate is set at 2/3 sidereal time, which is the default value in the setup dialog. This is not supported by the LX200 EMC, Autostar and Audiostar based telescopes. The LX200 scopes allow you to set the guide rate. For corrections over a 10 second threshold, the old technique will be used. New - This uses new commands that are built into the scope, as it is one command, the latency is lower and the scope can operate more fluently. This means that there may be latency involved which may effect guiding accuracy. The timing of the guide correction is carried out by the driver.
Old - This uses a series of commands which are to the scope one after another. There are two techniques for issuing guide commands. If you want the features supported for your scope I'm more than happy to work with you to be able to tune the settings. This means that I have to set the default values rather instead of the best options.
And GVP marked as ? means that I do not know the product code for that scope. The LX200 Classic (or EMC) does not support the GVP command, but I can detect that. This is the product code returned by the handset after connecting, it's in the trace file. The first entry, marked default is the settings that will be applied to all new telescopes. I'd love to be able to confirm support for all Meade telescopes. If your scope is not listed, please get involved, help test out the with your scope and send your result to the support group. This chart shows the status of testing for the various Meade telescopes.