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Goto Alt-Az ............................................................................................................................................................................28
Hibernate.................................................................................................................................................................................28
Turn On/Off RTC....................................................................................................................................................................28
Turn On/Off GPS....................................................................................................................................................................29
Image Orientation..............................................................................................................................................................................31
Focusing............................................................................................................................................................................................32
Calculating Magnification.................................................................................................................................................................32
Determining Field of View................................................................................................................................................................32
General Observing Hints...................................................................................................................................................................33
ASTRONOMY BASICS......................................................................................................................................................................34
The Celestial Coordinate System.......................................................................................................................................................34
Motion of the Stars............................................................................................................................................................................35
Finding the North Celestial Pole........................................................................................................................................................37
Declination Drift Method of Polar Alignment...................................................................................................................................38
CELESTIAL OBSERVING................................................................................................................................................................39
Observing the Moon..........................................................................................................................................................................39
Lunar Observing Hints......................................................................................................................................................................39
Observing the Planets........................................................................................................................................................................39
Observing the Sun.............................................................................................................................................................................40
Solar Observing Hints.......................................................................................................................................................................40
Observing Deep Sky Objects.............................................................................................................................................................40
Seeing Conditions..............................................................................................................................................................................40
Transparency.....................................................................................................................................................................................40
Sky Illumination................................................................................................................................................................................40
Seeing................................................................................................................................................................................................41
ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY..................................................................................................................................................................42
Short Exposure Prime Focus Photography........................................................................................................................................42
Eyepiece Projection...........................................................................................................................................................................43
Long Exposure Prime Focus Photography.........................................................................................................................................44
Periodic Error Correction (PEC)........................................................................................................................................................45
Using Periodic Error Correction........................................................................................................................................................46
Terrestrial Photography.....................................................................................................................................................................47
Metering............................................................................................................................................................................................47
Reducing Vibration ...........................................................................................................................................................................47
CCD Imaging ....................................................................................................................................................................................47
Fastar F/2 Imaging............................................................................................................................................................................49
F/6.3 with Reducer/Corrector............................................................................................................................................................50
Medium size to small galaxies –........................................................................................................................................................50
Planetary or Lunar-- ..........................................................................................................................................................................50
Auto Guiding.....................................................................................................................................................................................51
TELESCOPE MAINTENANCE........................................................................................................................................................52
Care and Cleaning of the Optics........................................................................................................................................................52
Collimation........................................................................................................................................................................................52
OPTIONAL ACCESSORIES............................................................................................................................................................54
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS....................................................................................................................................................57
APPENDIX A – LONGITUDES AND LATITUDES........................................................................................................................59
APPENDIX B – RS-232 CONNECTION...........................................................................................................................................64
APPENDIX C – TIME ZONE MAP..................................................................................................................................................66
SKY MAPS...........................................................................................................................................................................................68