Table Of Contents - Meade NG Instruction Manual

WARNING!
Never use a Meade
Telescope to look at the Sun! Looking at or
near the Sun will cause instant and irre-
versible damage to your eye. Eye damage is
often painless, so there is no warning to the
observer that damage has occurred until it is
too late. Do not point the telescope or its
viewfinder at or near the Sun. Do not look
through the telescope or its viewfinder as it is
moving. Children should always have adult
supervision while observing.
CAUTION: Use care to install batteries in the
orientation indicated by the battery connec-
tor. Follow battery manufacturer's precau-
tions. If these precautions are not followed,
batteries may explode, catch fire, or leak.
Improperly installed batteries void your
Meade warranty.
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CONTENTS
Telescope and Features.................................................. 4
Telescope and Tripod Features ...................................... 6
Getting Started................................................................ 8
Parts Listing .............................................................. 8
How to Assemble Your Telescope .............................. 8
Attaching and Aligning the Red Dot Viewfinder.......... 9
Choosing an Eyepiece .............................................. 9
Simple Observations ................................................10
Initializing the Control Panel ......................................11
Easy Alignment ........................................................11
Go To Saturn ............................................................12
Using the Guided Tour ..............................................14
Menus ............................................................................14
The NGC Menu Structure..........................................15
How to Move through the Menu Options ..................15
How to Calculate Sunset Time Example ..................15
Object Menu..............................................................16
Event Menu ..............................................................16
Glossary Menu..........................................................17
Utilities Menu ............................................................17
Setup Menu ..............................................................18
Optional Accessories......................................................19
Maintenance ..................................................................20
General Maintenance................................................20
Storage and Transport ..............................................20
Troubleshooting ........................................................20
Meade Customer Service ........................................21
Specifications ............................................................21
Appendix A: Advanced Features ....................................22
Celestial Coordinates ................................................22
Entering Coordinates for Objects not in Database ..22
To Go to a User-Entered Object ..............................23
Landmarks ................................................................23
To Add a Landmark to the database ....................23
To Select a Landmark from the database ..............23
Appendix B: Entering Time/Date Manually ....................24
Appendix C: Batteries ....................................................25
Basic Astronomy ............................................................26