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Example:
To navigate to the "Select Item: Setup" menu option when
the "Select Item: Object" menu is displayed:
1. Press the Scroll Down key four times or the Scroll Up
key once.
Autostar's LCD display presents two lines of information.
The top line shows the current menu level. The second line
displays an option which may be selected within that menu
level. Some options are choices that select the next menu
level down. The Scroll keys move up and down within the
list of available options, showing one option at a time.
When the desired option is displayed on the second line,
press the ENTER key to choose that option and move
down one menu level.
Press the MODE key to leave a level.
IMPORTANT NOTE: No matter how many levels into
Autostar are traveled, each press of the MODE key moves
up a level, until "Select Item," is reached. Once in the
"Select Item" level, press MODE to return to the topmost
level, "Select Item: Object."
AUTOSTAR NAVIGATION EXERCISE
To demonstrate how the Autostar menu structure works, the
following exercise calculates the Sunset time so an evening
observing session can be planned.
NOTE: To perform an accurate calculation,
Autostar must be properly initialized with the cur-
rent date, time, and location of the observing site.
If you have not yet entered the current date, time
and/or location information of your observing site,
see "INITIALIZING AUTOSTAR," page 8, before
proceeding with this exercise.
1. Press MODE repeatedly until the "Select Item: Object"
displays.
2. Press the Scroll Down key once. "Select Item: Event"
displays.
3. Press ENTER to select "Event" and to move down a
menu level. "Event: Sunrise" displays.
4. Press the Scroll Down key once. "Event: Sunset" displays.
5. Press ENTER to select the "Sunset" option.
6. Autostar calculates the Sunset time based on the cur-
rent date, time, and location. Autostar then displays the
the time of Sunset.
7. Press MODE once to move back up through the
Autostar levels. The first level up is "Event."
8. Press MODE again to move up another level. This is
the top menu level, "Select Item."
9. Press MODE again to return to the starting point of
"Select Item: Object."
10. Proceed with "TRAINING THE DRIVE."
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