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User Manual - Page 1
GPS Instruction Manual
8", 10", 12" LX90®-ACF Advanced Coma-Free Telescopes and 8", 10", 12" LX90®-SC Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescopes AutoStar® -
User Manual - Page 3
...174; The name "Meade", "AutoStar" and the Meade logo are trademarks of the Telescope..........46 Meade Customer Service 46 Specifications 47 Appendix A: Equatorial (Polar) Alignment 49 Appendix B: Helpful Charts 54 Appendix C: Training the Drive 55 Appendix D: Catadioptic Optical Systems 56 Warranty Information back page "Deep Sky Imager," "LX90", "LPI", "ACF", "Advanced ComaFree" and...
User Manual - Page 4
...setup indoors in the light so that one hand and, with the optional equatorial wedge (see EQUATORIAL WEDGE, page 51) for the spreader bar (Pg. 5, Fig. When first opening the packing box, note carefully the following the instructions...fully open position (Pg. 5, Fig. A, 3); H). By following parts:
• LX90 Telescope with fork mount system • AutoStar handbox and interface coil cord &#...
User Manual - Page 8
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CAUTION: Using products other than standard Meade accessories may void the Meade warranty. Slide the
diagonal prism directly into this pointer.
1@ GPS Receiver: Receives information transmitted from being moved manually, but engages the vertical motor drive for your LX90 telescope? Lock: Controls the manual vertical movement of the telescope. Turning the Dec. lock, be focused on...
User Manual - Page 19
...manually, or alignment will remember its database for Menu" displays. Select Alignment Procedure: "Press 0 to setup the telescope.... 2, 7) on the worm gear. Attempts a "GPS Fix":...model of the Setup menu is set the home position. Training the drive improves your telescope's pointing precision. IMPORTANT NOTE: The "Telescope: Mount" option of your telescope...telescope then tests the motor function of...
User Manual - Page 26
...sound and the timer is the minimum brightness of Algol is deactivated. Never use a Meade® LX90 Telescope to look at or near the Sun will cause instant and irreversible damage to your... reading a scrolling message such as setting an alarm, adjust the display contrast, calculate the best eyepiece for other dates by entering a new date into the "Setup: Date" menu. Solar Eclipse lists...
User Manual - Page 28
...gears of the telescope's motors. no alignment is the default setting. "Off" is required. Select "Start Up" to have the GPS function begin when you to select the telescope model connected to AutoStar.
ܖFocal Length: Displays the focal length of the selected telescope... time on AutoStar. Time may be prompted to manually enter the time, date and location. Try changing...
User Manual - Page 29
... Motor: If the telescope motors appear to have a camera or other peripheral attached to the telescope-you to perform periodic error correction (PEC) on , when looking for quieter operation.
ܖMax Elevation: Allows you to six sites may be used if an AutoStar unit is activated and any object you have a problem, use "+" hours. Meade...
User Manual - Page 37
...Arrow keys (do not manually move the telescope), move the telescope to the database.
2. "Landmark: Add" displays.
See the instruction sheet with AutoStar. Set the telescope in the Landmark database... on your PC. "Setup: Targets" displays again. "Landmark Name" displays. Press ENTER. Display the "Setup: Targets" menu option. "Select Item: Setup" displays.
4. Press ENTER...
User Manual - Page 41
...Create your own Guided Tours. •...
for some model digital cameras....manual focus, set to your camera's highest image quality and lowest compression settings. Some tips for a commercially available digital T-adapter. 41
Fig. 16: Meade Deep Sky Imager
Fig. 17: The Lunar Planetary Imager. They present many other features. • Controls all AutoStar functions from your Meade LX90 telescope...
User Manual - Page 42
.... The #505 Connector Cable Set, permitting connection of your PC, AutoStar-equipped telescopes, such as follows. Insert the2x Barlow into the telescope's eyepiece-holder first, followed by the diagonal prism and eyepiece.
#505 AstroFinder™ Software and Cable Connector Kit: With Meade AstroFinder loaded into your telescope. These wireless models include a variable brightness control...
User Manual - Page 46
... Equinox in the Setup menu is engaged. lock engaged, the telescope is on . If not, check to the nature of the telescope to the factory. Meade Consumer Solutions Service
If you can calculate the date and times of many first-time telescope owners is that the LX90 requires factory servicing or repairs, write or call the Meade Instruments Customer Solutions...
User Manual - Page 47
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16-channel GPS receiver
12" LX90 Specifications
Optical designs 12" LX90-ACF Advanced Coma-Free 12" LX90-SC Schmidt-Cassegrain
Clear aperture 12" Focal length 3048mm Focal ratio (photographic speed f/10 Viewfinder 8 x 50 finder Coatings Meade Ultra High Transmission Coatings (UHTC™) Mounting Cast-aluminum, double-tine forks Gears 4.9"-dia worm gears, both axes Alignment Altazimuth...
User Manual - Page 51
... in an astronomical, or "equatorial," mode. 51
Fig. 29: Section of Declination Setting Circle.
EQUATORIAL WEDGE
An optional equatorial wedge allows a more than sufficient: With this level of pointing accuracy, the telescope's motor drive will be in a star atlas. The LX90 requires an adapter to attach the equatorial wedge to the field tripod by...
User Manual - Page 56
... 10% greater, aperture-for-aperture, than is this phenomenon which results in the figure would be lost entirely, except for the oversize primary. All models of the Meade LX90-ACF includes oversize primary mirrors, yielding a fully illuminated field-of the primary mirror baffle tube significantly increase lunar, planetary, and deep-space image contrast.
Field...
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