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• Time- Enter the current time for your area You can enter either the local time (i e 8:00), or you can enter military time (i e 20:00)
1 . Select PM or AM If military time was entered, the hand control will bypass this step
2 . Choose between Standard time or Daylight Savings time Use the Up and Down scroll buttons (Keypad #6 or #9) to toggle
between options
3 . Select the time zone that you are observing from Again, use the Up and Down buttons (Keypad #6 or #9) to scroll through the choices
For time zone information, refer to the Time Zone map in the appendix of this manual
• Date- Enter the month, day and year of your observing session The display will read: mm/dd/yy
1 . If the wrong information has been input into the hand control, the UNDO button will act as a backspace allowing the user to
re-enter information
2 . The next time that your telescope is aligned, the hand control will automatically display the last location (either a city or longitude/latitude)
that was entered Press ENTER to accept these parameters if they still apply Pressing the UNDO button will allow you to go back and
select a new city location or longitude/latitude
3 . Use the arrow buttons on the hand control to slew (move) the telescope towards any bright celestial object in the sky Align the object
with the red dot of the finderscope and press ENTER
4 . If the finderscope has been properly aligned with the telescope tube, the alignment star should now be visible inside the field of view
of the eyepiece The hand control will ask that you center the bright alignment star in the center of the eyepiece and press the ALIGN
button This will accept the star as the first alignment position (There is no need to adjust the slewing rate of the motors after each
alignment step The LCM automatically selects the best slewing rate for aligning objects in both the finderscope and the eyepiece)
5 . For the second alignment object, choose a bright star or planet as far as possible from the first alignment object Once again use the
arrow button to center the object in the finderscope and press ENTER Then once centered in the eyepiece press the ALIGN button
6 . Repeat the process for the third alignment star When the telescope has been aligned to the final stars, the display will read "Match
Confirmed " Press UNDO to display the names of the three bright objects you aligned to, or press ENTER to accept these three objects
for alignment You are now ready to find your first object
TIPS FOR USING SKYALIGN
Remember the following alignment guidelines to make using SkyAlign as simple and accurate as possible
• Be sure to level the tripod before you begin alignment . The time/site information along with a level tripod will help the telescope
better predict the available bright stars and planets that are above the horizon
• Remember to select alignment stars that are as far apart in the sky as possible . For best results make sure that the third
alignment star does not lie in a straight line between the first two stars This may result in a failed alignment
• Don't worry about confusing planets for stars when selecting alignment objects . SkyAlign works with the four brightest
planets (Venus, Jupiter, Saturn and Mars) as well as the Moon In addition to the planets, the hand control has over 80 bright alignment
stars to choose from (down to 2 5 magnitude)
• Rarely SkyAlign may not be able to determine what three alignment objects were centered This sometime happens when a bright
planet or the Moon passes near one of the brighter stars . In situations like these, it is best to try to avoid aligning to either object
if possible
• Be sure to center the objects with the same final movements as the direction of the GoTo approach . For example, if the
scope normally finishes a GoTo with the front of the scope moving right and up, you should center all three alignment objects in the
eyepiece using the right and up arrow buttons (the up/down arrows reverse at slew rates of 6 or lower) Approaching the star from
this direction when looking through the eyepiece will eliminate much of the backlash between the gears and assure the most accurate
alignment possible
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