Starsense Overview; Starsense Camera; Starsense Hand Control - Celestron starsense autoalign User Manual

STARSENSE OVERVIEW

USB Port for future upgrades
and development
Modular Jack
Connection to mount

STARSENSE CAMERA

Modular Jack: Connects the StarSense Camera
to your telescope using the provided cable .
USB Port: Available for future software development
and camera fi rmware upgrades .
Camera Lens: A fully multi-coated 20mm f/2
lens responsible for capturing images to align
the telescope .
Lens Shroud: Helps protect the lens from dew
and peripheral light .
Large Camera Bracket: This bracket is preinstalled
in the box with StarSense . The bracket can be
removed and swapped with the smaller included
bracket (see Assembly, Changing Brackets) .
Camera Bracket Attachment Thumbscrews:
Used with the large camera bracket .

STARSENSE HAND CONTROL

StarSense AutoAlign's hand control gives you
instant access to the night sky . With automatic
slewing to over 40,000 objects and common sense
menu descriptions, even a beginner can master its
features in just a few observing sessions . Below is
a brief description of the individual components of
the StarSense hand control:
Lens shroud
Camera Lens
Large Bracket
(pre-installed on
camera in box)
Attachment Screws
1. Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) Window:
Features a four-line, 18-character display screen
that has red backlighting for comfortable viewing .
2 . Align: Instructs StarSense to begin alignment of
your telescope .
3. Direction Buttons: Used to manually slew your
telescope in any direction and center objects in
the eyepiece .
4. Catalog Buttons: StarSense has a key on the
hand control to allow direct access to each of
the main catalogs in its 40,000+ object database .
StarSense contains the following catalogs in its
database: Solar System, Stars, and Deep Sky .
5. Identify: Searches StarSense's databases and
displays the name and offset distances to the
nearest matching objects .
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