Autostar Ii Features - Meade RCX400 Instruction Manual

AUTOSTAR II FEATURES

Fig. 2: The Autostar II Handbox.
Tour the Cosmos with Just the Push of a Button
Control of Max and
Autostar II system. Nearly all functions of the telescope are accomplished with just a
few pushes of Autostar II's buttons.
Because the Autostar II system uses flash (rewritable) memory, your system will be
able to grow when new features and enhancements become available. Download the
latest satellite data, star and object catalogs, tours, serial commands list, and software
revisions, directly from the Meade website (www.meade.com).
Some of the major features of the Autostar II system are:
Automatically move the telescope to any of the more than 180,000 objects stored
in the object library, including:
Library
New General Catalog (NGC):
Index Catalog (IC):
Messier Catalog (M):
Caldwell Catalog:
Named Objects:
Herschel Catalog:
Abell Catalog of Galaxy Clusters:
Arp Catalog of Irregular Galaxies:
Uppsala Galaxy Catalog:
Morphological Catalog of Galaxies:
General Catalog of Variable Stars:
SAO:
Hipparcos Star Catalog:
....plus more than 10,000 other objects from the Lunar 100, the Washington Star,
Gliese, Hickson, PK, Landolt, Lunar Features, and other catalogs!
Looking at or near the Sun will cause irreversible damage to your eye. Do not point this telescope at or near the
Sun. Do not look through the telescope as it is moving.
telescope models is through the operation of the standard
RCX400
# of Objects
7,840
5,386
110
109
227
400
2,712
645
12,940
12,939
28,484
17,191
17,325
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