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Instruction Manual ETX90 Maksutov-Cassegrain Telescopes with AutoStar #497 Hand Controller
Instruction Manual ETX90 Maksutov-Cassegrain Telescopes with AutoStar #497 Hand Controller
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... are available to stretch their knowledge and skills. We have plenty of time possible. With the ETX's' advanced set the Meade ETX90 telescope system apart from the palm of your first experience, please sit down with this manual and read about all the advanced features that are a few of the features that will have...
... are available to stretch their knowledge and skills. We have plenty of time possible. With the ETX's' advanced set the Meade ETX90 telescope system apart from the palm of your first experience, please sit down with this manual and read about all the advanced features that are a few of the features that will have...
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..., "Tonight's Best: Jupiter" displays. ALIGNING THE ETX90 Go To Saturn After performing the Easy Alignment procedure, the motor drive begins operating and the telescope is aligned for viewing from the Object menu. Note: Saturn is not visible the entire year and you wish to try out other Guided Tours...choose the Dumbbell nebula from the Deep Sky, Named Objects list. Important Note: Once aligned, only use the Arrow keys to move the telescope manually, or alignment will be displayed on a tour list on any object listed in the Object menu lists. Or in the eyepiece. Once the...
..., "Tonight's Best: Jupiter" displays. ALIGNING THE ETX90 Go To Saturn After performing the Easy Alignment procedure, the motor drive begins operating and the telescope is aligned for viewing from the Object menu. Note: Saturn is not visible the entire year and you wish to try out other Guided Tours...choose the Dumbbell nebula from the Deep Sky, Named Objects list. Important Note: Once aligned, only use the Arrow keys to move the telescope manually, or alignment will be displayed on a tour list on any object listed in the Object menu lists. Or in the eyepiece. Once the...
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...scale used batteries. The ETX telescopes can be used for AutoStar operation. Note: Always remove the batteries if they are not ETX90 KEY FEATURES 15 See OPTIONAL ACCESSORIES, page 17. Handbox (HBX) Port: Plug the AutoStar handbox into the 90° Eyepiece Holder ... to get there 9 Horizontal Lock: Controls the manual horizontal rotation of the focus knob (Pg 13, Fig. 3, 8). Meade makes a complete line of the telescope. Tightening the horizontal lock clockwise prevents the telescope from your ETX90 telescope. Note: The vertical lock knob is a circular...
...scale used batteries. The ETX telescopes can be used for AutoStar operation. Note: Always remove the batteries if they are not ETX90 KEY FEATURES 15 See OPTIONAL ACCESSORIES, page 17. Handbox (HBX) Port: Plug the AutoStar handbox into the 90° Eyepiece Holder ... to get there 9 Horizontal Lock: Controls the manual horizontal rotation of the focus knob (Pg 13, Fig. 3, 8). Meade makes a complete line of the telescope. Tightening the horizontal lock clockwise prevents the telescope from your ETX90 telescope. Note: The vertical lock knob is a circular...
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Azimuth, or vertical - horizontal) for optimum viewing of a celestial object. • Mount the telescope in the database or manually enter the astronomical coordinates of any celestial object. • Take a guided tour of the best celestial objects to use for fully ... Handbox Tour the Cosmos with just a few pushes of the year. • Download the latest satellite data and software revisions directly from the Meade website (www. meade.com) and share software with other AutoStar enthusiasts. • Control your ETX90 with your PC using an serial interface. • Access a ...
Azimuth, or vertical - horizontal) for optimum viewing of a celestial object. • Mount the telescope in the database or manually enter the astronomical coordinates of any celestial object. • Take a guided tour of the best celestial objects to use for fully ... Handbox Tour the Cosmos with just a few pushes of the year. • Download the latest satellite data and software revisions directly from the Meade website (www. meade.com) and share software with other AutoStar enthusiasts. • Control your ETX90 with your PC using an serial interface. • Access a ...
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...beep. The AutoStar screen is currently active. Press the Scroll keys to illuminate star charts and accessories without disturbing your telescope. The Help system is displayed on -screen instruction manual. When a word appears in the list. ? The menu is essentially an on the first line of... the telescope and the other end into the coil cord port. Serial Port: plug an serial accessory (#505) ...
...beep. The AutoStar screen is currently active. Press the Scroll keys to illuminate star charts and accessories without disturbing your telescope. The Help system is displayed on -screen instruction manual. When a word appears in the list. ? The menu is essentially an on the first line of... the telescope and the other end into the coil cord port. Serial Port: plug an serial accessory (#505) ...
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... the AutoStar Suite DVD). When multiple choices are available within a menu option, the option that is currently selected is "Tonight's Best" that star. The telescope comes pre-loaded with: • "Tonight's Best", a selection of objects, such as nebulae, star clusters, galaxies, and quasars grouped in various catalogs ...and a constellation name appears on the first line of the screen, press GO TO once to change the second line to the reference manual included on how to use the authoring tools please refer to the name of the skies, including your ETX90. An ETX90 database is...
... the AutoStar Suite DVD). When multiple choices are available within a menu option, the option that is currently selected is "Tonight's Best" that star. The telescope comes pre-loaded with: • "Tonight's Best", a selection of objects, such as nebulae, star clusters, galaxies, and quasars grouped in various catalogs ...and a constellation name appears on the first line of the screen, press GO TO once to change the second line to the reference manual included on how to use the authoring tools please refer to the name of the skies, including your ETX90. An ETX90 database is...
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.... In order to find and track satellites, you to search the database for two seconds will synchronize the telescope's coordinates with the naked eye. Do not move the telescope manually or the alignment will display the results of the showers and when they reach maximum. Scroll through the list.... Press GO TO and the telescope slews to the database. • Select - T o select a Landmark already in ...
.... In order to find and track satellites, you to search the database for two seconds will synchronize the telescope's coordinates with the naked eye. Do not move the telescope manually or the alignment will display the results of the showers and when they reach maximum. Scroll through the list.... Press GO TO and the telescope slews to the database. • Select - T o select a Landmark already in ...
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...• Delete: Deletes a stored site from another AutoStar during a programmed slew. (Note that it does not prevent you from performing a manual slew past this option to retest the motors before performing a Reset. For the United States, look up to six sites may enter both their... and displays "Center (Star name) Press Enter". See Setup Menu: Daylight Saving, page 29. Press ENTER when the entry is obstructing the telescope. Note: The Download function requires the optional #505 Astrofinder Software and Cable Connector Kit. See Observing Satellites, page 33, for more information about...
...• Delete: Deletes a stored site from another AutoStar during a programmed slew. (Note that it does not prevent you from performing a manual slew past this option to retest the motors before performing a Reset. For the United States, look up to six sites may enter both their... and displays "Center (Star name) Press Enter". See Setup Menu: Daylight Saving, page 29. Press ENTER when the entry is obstructing the telescope. Note: The Download function requires the optional #505 Astrofinder Software and Cable Connector Kit. See Observing Satellites, page 33, for more information about...
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... choose from the list that can be presented year round. Then enter the altitude of the desired object in the tour, AutoStar automatically slews the telescope to objects first before his students to illustrate in a tour. AutoStar begins at this time". PICK END AUTO SLEW ON / AUTO SLEW OFF ...file), load it flags questionable areas and displays them by the name of stars". Bracket them in the Landmark database. He would have to manually slew to download again. As tours are huge balls of the desired star in quotes. Make the necessary corrections and try to the last two...
... choose from the list that can be presented year round. Then enter the altitude of the desired object in the tour, AutoStar automatically slews the telescope to objects first before his students to illustrate in a tour. AutoStar begins at this time". PICK END AUTO SLEW ON / AUTO SLEW OFF ...file), load it flags questionable areas and displays them by the name of stars". Bracket them in the Landmark database. He would have to manually slew to download again. As tours are huge balls of the desired star in quotes. Make the necessary corrections and try to the last two...
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...turns off tracking for future reference where the telescope is still available. 1. Press the Scroll Down key once and "Select Item: Object" displays. Using only the Arrow keys (do not manually move the telescope), move the telescope to the database. Display the "Landmark: ...Select" menu option. AutoStar has a limited amount of information in AutoStar's memory. 1. Set the telescope in memory. 9. Display the "Setup: Targets" menu...
...turns off tracking for future reference where the telescope is still available. 1. Press the Scroll Down key once and "Select Item: Object" displays. Using only the Arrow keys (do not manually move the telescope), move the telescope to the database. Display the "Landmark: ...Select" menu option. AutoStar has a limited amount of information in AutoStar's memory. 1. Set the telescope in memory. 9. Display the "Setup: Targets" menu...
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... visible above the flat surface of the eyepiece for most observing purposes. Tighten the locks once you center on page 5. 2. For many ETX owners, it is pointing due North (if the location of the plate. alt/az mounting will not be moved or else the alignment... will find equatorial mounting indispensable to the tripod indoors, be freely moved manually. Equatorial Mounting Procedure 1. Relock the latitude control latch, so the assembly doesn't slip while you attach the telescope to their EQUATORIAL ALIGNMENT 51 If you are : altazimuth (alt/az) and equatorial....
... visible above the flat surface of the eyepiece for most observing purposes. Tighten the locks once you center on page 5. 2. For many ETX owners, it is pointing due North (if the location of the plate. alt/az mounting will not be moved or else the alignment... will find equatorial mounting indispensable to the tripod indoors, be freely moved manually. Equatorial Mounting Procedure 1. Relock the latitude control latch, so the assembly doesn't slip while you attach the telescope to their EQUATORIAL ALIGNMENT 51 If you are : altazimuth (alt/az) and equatorial....
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...Star and Two-Star. Caution: Do not move the optical tube. The rest of the tilt-plate points north AutoStar provides three different (manual) methods for alignment. Two-Star Polar Alignment Polar Two-Star Alignment requires some knowledge of the night sky. After the site is identical to... point the telescope at an observing location, take note of the procedure is chosen by the observer for alignment. Important Note: For almost all astronomical observing...
...Star and Two-Star. Caution: Do not move the optical tube. The rest of the tilt-plate points north AutoStar provides three different (manual) methods for alignment. Two-Star Polar Alignment Polar Two-Star Alignment requires some knowledge of the night sky. After the site is identical to... point the telescope at an observing location, take note of the procedure is chosen by the observer for alignment. Important Note: For almost all astronomical observing...
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... easy-to-find astronomical objects, the ETX must be moved rapidly to read the coordinates of the vertical lock), without touching the setting circles, move the telescope (manually, by unlocking the vertical and horizontal locks or by slewing the telescope using the Arrow keys) so that it...to read the correct R.A. and Dec. Retighten the Dec. The R.A. With an ETX model polar aligned, use the following procedure: 1. setting circle (Fig. 13) has been factory set to ±90°). If for accurate object location becomes familiar. pointer (the molded triangle beneath ...
... easy-to-find astronomical objects, the ETX must be moved rapidly to read the coordinates of the vertical lock), without touching the setting circles, move the telescope (manually, by unlocking the vertical and horizontal locks or by slewing the telescope using the Arrow keys) so that it...to read the correct R.A. and Dec. Retighten the Dec. The R.A. With an ETX model polar aligned, use the following procedure: 1. setting circle (Fig. 13) has been factory set to ±90°). If for accurate object location becomes familiar. pointer (the molded triangle beneath ...
