Identify - Meade LX850 Instruction Manual

Solar System" displays.
5. Press the Scroll Up key twice and "Object:
Landmarks"
"Landmark: Select" displays.
6. Press the Scroll Down key once. "Landmark:
Add" displays. Press ENTER.
7. "Landmark Name" displays. Using Arrow
keys, enter a name for the landmark you
press ENTER.
8. "Center Landmark. Press Enter" displays.
Using only the Arrow keys (do not manually
move the telescope), move the telescope to
the desired landmark and center the object in
the eyepiece. Press Enter. The object is now
stored in memory.
9. "Landmark: Add" displays. If you wish to add
more landmarks, repeat steps 5 through 7.
To Select a landmark from the database:
1. Make sure the telescope is located and aligned
entered into memory.
2. Display the "Landmark: Select" menu option.
Press ENTER.
3. Use the Scroll keys to scroll through the list of
objects you have previously entered. When
the desired object displays, press ENTER to
select the object. Use the Scroll keys to scroll
through location information about the object, if
desired. Press GO TO to slew the telescope to
the landmark.
To perform a Landmark Survey
This procedure allows you to perform a tour of the
objects entered in the "Object: Landmark" menu
option – note that the Landmark Survey will function
only if you have previously entered objects in the
Landmark menu.
1. Navigate to "Utilities: Landmark Survey" menu
and press ENTER.
2. "Landmark Survey: Slewing..." displays. The
Survey list and displays the name of the object.
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displays. Press ENTER.
3. Press MODE to pause the Survey. Press
the survey.
To check on the available amount of memory
in AutoStar.
AutoStar has a limited amount of memory. Once you
begin to store Landmarks, User Objects and other bits
of information in AutoStar, you will begin to use up
memory. This procedure allows you to check on how
much memory is still available.
1. Navigate to the "Setup: Statistics" menu option
and press ENTER.
2. "Statistics: 97.4K Char. Free" displays. This is
the amount of memory that is still available to
the user.

Identify

This procedure allows you to use AutoStar to identify
objects you have found in the night sky using the
Arrow keys. If the object is not in AutoStar's database,
AutoStar displays information about an object in its
database that is closest to the one you queried about.
Important Note: The telescope must be
successfully aligned before the Identify feature
can be used. Once aligned, it cannot be
physically moved from that location. Moving
the telescope disrupts the telescopes frame
of reference to the night sky and will prevent it
from identifying objects.
In this procedure, you will center an object you wish to
about the object or the nearest object to it in the
AutoStar database.
the telescope's eyepiece.
2. Navigate to the "Object: Identify" option and
press ENTER.
3. "Searching..." displays.
object displays.
4. Press a Scroll key to display information about
this object. AutoStar displays some or all the
following information about the object with
each press of a Scroll key:
When AutoStar