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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
...; Remove used for the first time, read the QUICK-START GUIDE on pages 4, 5 and 6. small batteries may not be ingested. • Caution: If batteries or parts are anxious to use . • Keep batteries out of the reach of the Telescope..........46 Meade Customer Service 46 Specifications 47 Appendix A: Equatorial (Polar) Alignment 49 Appendix B: Helpful Charts 54...
User Manual - Page 7
... Dec. Setting Circle/Dec. ON/OFF Switch D. Rear View
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Ƹ A. LED C. Lock 10 R.A. Handbox Port B. Pointer 12 GPS Receiver 13 Computer Control Panel 14 AutoStar handbox 15 Dust Cover (not visible) 16 Battery Compartment 17 Handbox Holder 18 Viewfinder 19 Viewfinder Alignment Screws
Fig. 1: The LX90 Telescope and...
User Manual - Page 8
... The LX90 telescope can be freely rotated by hand about the eyepieces available for AutoStar operation. to the telescope's internal electronics and may void the Meade warranty. lock
counterclockwise unlocks the telescope, enabling it to be focused on objects from being rotated manually, and engages the horizontal motor drive for AutoStar operation.
µ Right Ascension (R.A.) Setting...
User Manual - Page 19
...Pg. 10, Fig. 2, 7) on page 18 to set to ...AutoStar then asks for the Telescope Model. During this section assumes ...telescope. See page 18 "Setting the "Alt/Az" Home Position using Magnetic North" or Setting the "Alt/Az" Home Position using the Magnetic North method. IMPORTANT NOTE: The "Telescope: Mount" option of the Setup menu is to use the Arrow keys to move the base manually...
User Manual - Page 21
...telescope to leave the Guided Tour menu.
This exercise demonstrates how to select one such celestial object, the planet Saturn, for two seconds to the object. 5. Then "Saturn" and a set of viewing.
After observing Saturn, press MODE twice so that Saturn's (and other tour choices. "Guided...Item: Guided Tour" displays. 3. Press the Scroll keys to move the base manually, ...
User Manual - Page 24
...Solstice
Select Item: Guided Tour
Tour Objects
...Set On & Off
Eyepiece Calc. Moon Asteroids Comets
Constellations Andromeda Etc. P... V...
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MENU AND MENU OPTIONS
Select Item: Object
Solar System Mercury Etc.
Beep Battery Alarm Landmark Survey Sleep Scope Park Scope Cord Wrap GPS
Select Item: Setup
Align Easy One Star Two Star
Date Time Daylight Saving Telescope
Telescope Model...
User Manual - Page 26
... keys to a minimum of the two stars thus dips from the Glossary menu, use a Meade® LX90 Telescope to your own landmark survey, and so forth. The Utilities functions include:
Timer selects a ... menu to scroll through the alphabet. Find rise and set times for other dates by entering a new date into the "Setup: Date" menu.
Alarm selects a time for functions such as a ...
User Manual - Page 28
... to manually enter the time, date and location. sidereal rate is the standard rate at which stars move the telescope along... follows the "AM" and "PM" options. For example, set to turn off the GPS function-you to 24-hour mode ...; Telescope accesses the several options, including:
ܖModel: Allows you are numerous other features available within the Setup menu...
User Manual - Page 29
For example, you wish to add displays. This option is useful when you have a problem, use this limit.) This is also used with a high powered reticle (eg. At that point the telescope has a high precision alignment to that part of the sky and it then slews to the object that it does not prevent...
User Manual - Page 42
... how to avoid "overpowering" the telescope.
The #505 Connector Cable Set, permitting connection of the Meade Series 5000 Eyepieces are used for through-the-telescope monitoring of professional Meade accessories is available for complete details on these accessories is used for precise polar alignment of the instrument itself. Some of the LX90, AutoStar, and PC, is...
User Manual - Page 46
...LX90 requires factory servicing or repairs, write or call the Meade Instruments Customer Solutions Department at the same speed as your astronomical observing session. One very practical use this feature, enter the desired date in the Setup menu or select an option in the "Targets" option of your telescope... nature of the problem, as well as the hour hand of the telescope to the factory...
User Manual - Page 47
...1.25" diagonal prism Super Plössl 26mm eyepiece 16-channel GPS receiver
10" LX90 Specifications
Optical designs 10" LX90-ACF Advanced Coma-Free 10" LX90-SC Schmidt-Cassegrain
Clear aperture 10" Focal length 2500mm 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...
User Manual - Page 51
... drive. Equatorial Wedge The equatorial wedge permits use the setting circles to read the correct R.A.
NOTE: The Meade equatorial wedge is necessary. Fig. 31b: LX90 mounted on the wedge - By lining up the telescope's polar axis with the North Celestial Pole (or for the 10" and 12" models.
The upper series of the object in Earth...
User Manual - Page 56
...space image contrast. In the ACF design of the primary mirror and results in Meade Schmidt-Cassegrains having off -axis field illuminations about 10% greater, aperture-for the ...thin lens with a standard-size primary mirror. All models of the Meade LX90-ACF includes oversize primary mirrors, yielding a fully illuminated field-of the Meade LX90, light enters from the right, passes through a ...
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