Celestron CGE1100 Supplementary Manual
Celestron CGE1100 Supplementary Manual

Celestron CGE1100 Supplementary Manual

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The following is a supplemental addendum to the included instruction manual that
explains the new features of Celestron's CGE Telescopes. Please refer to this addendum
for information concerning the new hand control features included with your telescope.
Refer to the owner's manual for step-by-step instruction on assembling and using your
telescope.
The CGE Series telescope has a hand controller designed to give you instant access to all the functions that your
telescope has to offer. With automatic slewing to over 40,000 objects, and common sense menu descriptions,
even a beginner can master its variety of features in just a few observing sessions. Below is a brief description
of the individual components of the computerized hand controller:
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1. Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) Window: Has a dual-line, 16 character display screen that is backlit
for comfortable viewing of telescope information and scrolling text.
2. Align: Instructs the telescope to use a selected star or object as an alignment position.
3. Direction Keys: Allows complete control of the telescope in any direction. Use the direction keys to
move the telescope to the initial alignment stars or for centering objects in the eyepiece.
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The CGE Hand Control
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Summary of Contents for Celestron CGE1100

  • Page 1 Refer to the owner's manual for step-by-step instruction on assembling and using your telescope. The CGE Series telescope has a hand controller designed to give you instant access to all the functions that your telescope has to offer. With automatic slewing to over 40,000 objects, and common sense menu descriptions, even a beginner can master its variety of features in just a few observing sessions.
  • Page 2: Hand Control Operation

    Alignment, Setup and Utilities. The alignment section deals with the initial telescope alignment as well as finding objects in the sky; the setup section discusses changing parameters such as tracking mode and tracking rate; finally, the last section reviews all of the utilities functions such as calibrating your mount, polar alignment and backlash compensation.
  • Page 3 In order for the telescope to accurately point to objects in the sky, it must first be aligned with known positions (stars) in the sky. With this information, the telescope can create a model of the sky, which it uses to locate any object with known coordinates.
  • Page 4: Mount Calibration

    Note: If incorrect information is entered into the hand control, the UNDO button acts like a back space button allowing the user to re-enter the correct data. Two-Star Align allows the user to select two stars on which to align the telescope. To align your telescope using the Two-Star Align method: 1.
  • Page 5: Tips For Using Solar System Align

    Solar System Align is designed to provide excellent tracking and GoTo performance by using solar syst objects (Sun, Moon and planets) to align the telescope with the sky. Solar System Align is a great way to align ur telescope for daytime viewing as well as a quick way to align the telescope for nighttime observing.
  • Page 6 This will allow you to roughly slew to the coordinates of bright objects like the moon and planets and gives the telescope the information needed to track objects in any part of the sky (depending on accuracy of polar lignment).
  • Page 7: Selecting An Object

    Undo Sync before you will be able to proceed Selecting an Object Now that the telescope is properly aligned, you can choose an object from any of the catalogs in the telescope' extensive d atabase.
  • Page 8: Slewing To An Object

    Constellation Tour In addition to the Tour Mode, your telescope has a Constellation Tour that allows the user to take a tour of all the best objects in each of the 88 constellations. Selecting Constellation from the LIST menu will display all e constellatio n names that are above the user defined horizon (filter limits).
  • Page 9: Direction Buttons

    The hand control has four direction buttons (3) in the center of the hand control which control the telescope's otion in Declination (north and south) and Right Ascension (east and west). The telescope can be controlled t nine different speed rates.
  • Page 10: Tracking Rate

    Save Land Object: The telescope can also be used as a spotting scope on terrestrial objects. Fixed land objects can be stored by saving their altitude and azimuth relative to the location of the telescope at the time of observing. Since these objects are relative to the location of the telescope, they are only valid for that exact location.
  • Page 11 To replace the contents of any of the user defined objects, simply save a new object using one of the existing entification numbers; the telescope will replace the previous user defined object with the current one. et RA/DEC - Displays the right ascension and declination for the current position of the telescope.
  • Page 12 If you change the Goto approach of your telescope it is not necessary to change the Button Direction as well. Simply take notice of the direction the telescope moves when completing it final goto approach. If t ar from the west (negative azimuth) and clockwise (negative altitude) then make sure that the buttons used to center the alignment stars also move the telescope in the same directions.
  • Page 13: U Tility Features

    By default the Home position is the same as the switch position used when aligning the mount. To set the Home position for your mount simply use the arrow buttons on the hand control to move the telescope ount to the desired position. Select the Set option and press Enter.
  • Page 14: Polar Align

    This not only saves power, but is ideal for those that have their telescopes permanently mounte d or leave their telescope in one location for long periods of time. To place your telescope in Hibernate mode: 1.
  • Page 15: Scrolling Menu

    Allows you to turn off the telescopes internal real time clock. When aligning the telescope using AutoAlign, the CGE still receives time information from the RTC. If you want to use the CGE database to find the coordinates of a celestial object for a futu ff in order to manually enter a time other than the present.
  • Page 16 MENU ALIGNMENT TRACKING START-UP PROCUDURE MODE SET TO SWITCH SELECT LOCATION EQ NORTH EQ SOUTH ENTER TIME RATE DLS/ST TIME ZONE SIDEREAL ENTER DATE- MM/DD/YY SOLAR ENTER LONG/LAT LUNAR VIEW TIME-SITE SCOPE SETUP SETUP TIME-SITE ANTI-BACKLASH FILTER LIMITS DIRECTION BUTTONS GOTO APPROACH AUTOGUIDE RATES MOUNT SETTINGS...

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