Synscan Hand Control's Operating Modes - Orion SynScan V5 Hand Control Instruction Manual

• The left and right keys are used to control the movement of the Right Ascension (R.A.) axis
(for an equatorial mount) or the azimuth axis (for an Alt-azimuth mount).
• The up and down keys are used to control the movement of the Declination (Dec.) axis (for
an equatorial mount) or altitude axis (for an Alt-azimuth mount).
• In most cases, pressing the "
speed:
The LCD screen will display "
»
Press a number between "
»
Press the
»
If the user does not press the
»
while using the direction keys to slew the mount.
If there is no keypad operation in 5 seconds, the most recent speed will be kept and the
»
LCD display will return to the previous one.
• The following table lists the available speeds:
Rate 0
Speed
*1 0.5X
• Rate 7/8/9 is primarily used to quickly slew a mount.
• Rate 5/6 is primarily used to move a target in the field of view of a finder scope.
• Rate 2/3/4 is primarily used to move a target in the field of view of an eyepiece.
• Rate 0/1 is used to move a target in the field of view in high magnification observations,
or manual-guiding.
Note:
*1: Speed is represented as multiples of the Earth's rotation speed.
*2, *3: For Equatorial mounts, the speed is the drift speed of an object in FOV while the mount's
tracking is turned on; it is not the axis's rotation speed.
*4: Maximum speed varies on mounts. For most Sky-Watcher mounts, it is higher than 800X
(3.4 degrees/sec).
1.4 SynScan Hand control's Operating Mode
The SynScan hand control has 2 operating modes: Full Feature Mode and Easy Tracking
Mode.
Full Feature Mode:
1.
The flow chart of the "Full Feature" operation is shown in
Initialization
RATE/2
Set Speed
0
" and "
ENTER
key to return to the previous display.
1 2
1X 8X
*2 *3
Alignment
" key will invoke the operation of choosing a slewing
", followed by the current speed as "
9
" to select a new speed.
ENTER
button, he/she can continue to change the speed
3 4 5
16X 32X 64X
Locate a celestial
object automatically
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6 7 8
128X 400X 600X
Fig. 1.4a.
Observing or other
operations
Rate = *x
"'.
9
Max
*4
Fig. 1.4a