Moving The Mount Around - SKY-WATCHER Star Discovery Mount Instruction Manual

Part V: Astronomy with the SynScan Version 4
Part V: Astronomy with the SynScan Version 4

Moving the mount around

In many situations, like aligning the Star Discovery mount on bright stars, it will be needed to
move the mount at different speeds with the directional keys. Here is how to perform this
operation:
The left and right keys are used to control the movements of the
azimuth axis (The mount will move left or right) and the up and down
keys are used to control the movements of the altitude axis (The mount
will move up or down)
Pressing the (RATE/2) key will display the menu for choosing a slewing speed:
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The LCD screen displays "Set Speed", followed by the current speed as "Rate = *x"'.
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Press a number between (0) and (9) to select a new speed.
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Press the (ENTER) key to return to the previous display.
If the (ENTER) button is not pressed, it is possible continuing to change the
speed 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 ones.
Do you know that the SynScan Version 4 hand controller is
able to fully drive the huge EQ8 mount?
"The EQ8 High Precision EQ mount is pier tripod - based. It
comes with a SynScan Version 4 hand controller, [...]. The
patented Freedom Find (dual-encoder) technology allows the
telescope to be moved manually whenever the user wishes -
but with no need for re-alignment!"
The very same SynScan Version 4 hand controller is used on
the Star Discovery mount. The SynScan Version 4 handset
can drive the Sky Discovery mount to any object selected
from its huge 42000+ object database, including objects from
Messier, IC, NGC and Caldwell catalogs, the planets, named
stars, double stars, variable stars and even user-defined
objects like new comets.
The Star Discovery mount includes digital encoders and the
patented "Freedom Find
Watcher EQ8 mount. After moving to a new object the
telescope will automatically begin to track the new object
accurately. No re-setup is required in one observing session.
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