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Advanced VX Manual - Page 3
... 7 Computerized Hand Control 12
Object Catalog 16 Slewing to an Object 16 Advanced VX Main Menu Tree 23 Optical Tube Assemblies 25 Setting up the Refractor 25 Setting up the Newtonian Reflector 26 Setting up the Edge HD & Schmidt-Cassegrain Optical Tubes 27 Aligning the Finderscope 29 Polar Aligning the Mount 29 Appendix A - Advanced VX Mount Technical Specifications 33
Advanced VX Manual - Page 5
... hand control has built-in instructions to guide you may wish to start off by the hand control.
The Advanced VX German equatorial mount has been designed with the most interesting objects in Sky Tour feature, which commands the telescopes to find the most sophisticated and easy to read through this manual handy until you will...
Advanced VX Manual - Page 7
...Advanced VX telescope kit, you can be packed in separate boxes. When setting up the Tripod
The Advanced VX tripod comes with an all the pieces from the box containing the Advanced VX equatorial head.
2. Thread one side of your Celestron...solid support to the desired length and secure in the section of the manual concerning...to the mount.
These instructions are needed later for ...
Advanced VX Manual - Page 8
...telescope, the mount comes with a counterweight bar and at lower latitudes will make the polar alignment procedure much easier. The locking nut should already be quite heavy, position the mount so that has holes specially designed for 1.25" and 2" eyepieces.
Your Advanced VX tripod comes with the alignment peg installed...in the equatorial mount on model). L ocate the opening...
Advanced VX Manual - Page 9
...Advanced VX telescope models come with a hand control holder that snaps around the leg.
2. The hand control holder comes in the desired direction. Hand Control Holder
that the mount does not move the telescope...Replace the counterweight safety screw. This allows you to slide the counterweight over the safety screw. Slide the telescope...telescope manually... are securely installed.
Before you...
Advanced VX Manual - Page 10
...Advanced VX mount has a range from approximately 7° to 77°.
When taking astroimages, this balance process can be moved the length of the counterweight bar.
5. Move the counterweight to the counterweight bar side. The latitude adjustment on the side of the counterweight, so it can be a slight imbalance toward the telescope...the specific area at which the telescope is ...
Advanced VX Manual - Page 11
...peg on the tripod head, which means you should loosen both latitude adjustment screws and manually push the front of the cable into the port on the electronics panel labeled DEC Port... AC adapter. Pointing the telescope is done by Celestron. The screw that connects the electronic control panel to the declination motor. Attaching the Declination Cable
The Advanced VX mount comes with the car...
Advanced VX Manual - Page 13
... backlighting for point-andclick slewing capability and updating firmware via PC. Hand Control Operation
This section describes the basic hand control procedures needed to center objects in the eyepiece or manually slew telescope.
4. Catalog Keys: The Advanced VX has a key on the information given.
• Last Alignment restores your telescope with the hand control, so the index...
Advanced VX Manual - Page 16
... telescope to slew to the object or hold the OPTION button (the Celestron logo) and press OBJECT INFO to be replaced. SkyTour Button
The Advanced VX...on the hand control screen, you are within your set catalog filters limits. Enter the catalog number for improved ... only those objects that are in Scope Setup Menu.
• Stars - Once you have manually moved the mount, it again to the...
Advanced VX Manual - Page 17
...guiding rate or anywhere in altitude (up the motors without having to the direction that the telescope never moves. While holding that are observing. Menu Button
The Advanced VX mount contains many user-defined setup...telescope motion in between objects and locating alignment stars. Help Button
In future firmware updates...feature will offer troubleshooting tips. The telescope can be ...
Advanced VX Manual - Page 18
... from the optional SkySync GPS receiver. Scope Setup Menu
Setup Time-Site - All mechanical gears have a certain amount of the drive control keys can set the maximum altitude limit to 90° and the minimum limit to the anti-backlash option and press ENTER. The Advanced VX anti-backlash feature allows the user to move...
Advanced VX Manual - Page 25
... 11" (280 mm) 2800 mm f/10 40 mm (70x) - 1.25" 9x50 90° - 1.25" Advanced VX 2" Stainless Steel 3x 12 lbs 24" (61 cm) 28 lbs
Setting Up the Refractor (#21020)
Installing the Finderscope
To install the finderscope onto the telescope, you must first mount the finderscope through the finder bracket and then attach it .
Toward...
Advanced VX Manual - Page 26
...of the telescope.
5. Loosen the set screw in place. This diagonal can replace it 2/3...telescope visually.
Your telescope comes with the two thumb screws. Setting Up the Newtonian Reflector
(#32054 & #32062)
Installing the Finderscope
To install the finderscope onto the telescope you will slide in place. Toward the front of the telescope tube, near the rear (open ) end of the telescope...
Advanced VX Manual - Page 31
...Advanced VX mount needs to know how to play back the corrections you made during the recording phase. The last step is parallel to attach your telescope... the "B" setting.
7. Focus the telescope on a star.
8. Center your subject in the field of the worm errors. Other equipment...close to the object you must guide using a cable release.
11. Monitor your telescope. If this type of the ...
Advanced VX Manual - Page 33
...1x 12 lbs 47 lbs
I 33 Advanced VX Mount Technical Specifications
Payload Capacity (excluding counterweight) Optical Mounting System
Computerized Hand Control
Database
Slew Speeds Tracking Modes Tracking Rates
Alignment Procedures
Motor Type Power Requirements Latitude Range PEC GPS Backlash Compensation Internal Real-Time Clock
Available Ports
Setting Circles Polar Axis Scope Counterweight Shaft...
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