Celestron CPC DELUXE 800 HD Instruction Manual

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Page 3 Congratulations on your purchase of the Celestron CPC DeluxeHD Take time to read through this manual before embarking on your telescope! The CPC DeluxeHD combines Celestron’s newly designed CPC Computerized mount with its new EdgeHD optical system. The become familiar with your CPC, so you should keep this manual handy CPC series uses GPS (Global Positioning System) technology to take the until you have fully mastered your telescope’s operation.
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Page 5: Setting Up The Tripod
The CPC DeluxeHD telescope comes completely pre-assembled and can be operational in a matter of minutes. The CPC and its accessories are #11007 #11008 #11009 CPC Deluxe 800 HD CPC Deluxe 925 HD CPC Deluxe 1100 HD Diameter 203 mm (8”) Edge HD Optics 235 mm (9.25”) Edge HD Optics...
Page 6 Rotate the the retaining ring that attaches the diagonal to the rear cell. Rotate the tube upwards until it is level with the ground and tighten the diagonal to the desired position and tighten the retaining ring. locking knob. >> www.celestron.com...
Page 7 The Finderscope Finderscope Installation bracket then attached to the rear cell of the telescope. To install when looking from the back of the tube. 3. Place the mounting bracket over the two holes of the rear cell as >> www.celestron.com...
Page 8: Powering The Cpc
The hand 3-10). Your telescope also comes with a hand control holder that must be attached to the fork arm. To connect the hand control to the fork arm: >> www.celestron.com...
Page 9 The CPC is controlled by Celestron’s NexStar hand controller designed List – lists based on their type and/or common name: a few observing sessions. Below is a brief description of the individual Named Stars Common name listing of the brightest stars components of the CPC’s NexStar hand controller:...
Page 10 However the following alignment stars still need to be found and centered using the hand control. tripod if you already haven’t done so. Press ENTER to continue. 4. Use the arrow buttons on the hand control to slew (move) the may result in a failed alignment. >> www.celestron.com...
Page 11: Two-Star Alignment
ENTER. The display will then instruct you to center the star in the accept this star as your second alignment star. When the telescope has and display Alignment Successful. been aligned to both stars the display will read Alignment Success, and >> www.celestron.com...
Page 12 EQ AutoAlign The EQ AutoAlign uses all the same time/site information as the Alt-Az EQ Two-Star alignment. alignments, however it also requires you to position the tube so that the >> www.celestron.com...
Page 13 (see Slew Limits in the Scope Setup section of the manual). Press UNDO to go back and select a new object. Press ENTER to ignore the message and continue the slew. alignment. After the telescope is powered on, pressing any of the >> www.celestron.com...
Page 14 (land) observation, the tracking can be and locating alignment stars. The number 1 on the hand control is the slowest rate (.5x sidereal) and can be used for accurate centering of rate of the motors: current speed rate. >> www.celestron.com...
Page 15 Enter R.A. - Dec – in the eyepiece. Scroll to the “Enter RA-DEC” command and press ENTER. The display To store a set of coordinates (R.A./Dec) permanently into the CPC database, save it as a as described above. GoTo Object – >> www.celestron.com...
Page 16 90°. Direction Buttons – The direction a star moves in the eyepiece varies Filter Limits – When an alignment is complete, the CPC automatically depending on the accessories being used. This can create confusion when >> www.celestron.com...
Page 17: Scrolling Menu
Position. The hand control will sync on the star by asking you to center the star in the eyepiece and pressing the Align Version – Selecting this option will allow you to see the current version the star, you are free to manually move the mount in both axes in order >> www.celestron.com...
Page 18 Using this tool will invalidate the PEC index using PEC, see the section on “Celestial Photography”. Periodic Error Correction (PEC) – PEC is designed to improve photographic quality by reducing the amplitude of the worm gear errors >> www.celestron.com...
Page 19 To avoid this Moon or a planet) so that the image is visible even when out of focus. Critical focusing is best accomplished when the focusing knob is turned >> www.celestron.com...
Page 20 When using a camera, however, you should always wear a double image. stigmatism, corrective lenses must be worn at all times. includes asphalt parking lots on hot summer days or building rooftops. >> www.celestron.com...
Page 21 Stars in the mid-celestial latitudes rise in the northeast and set in the >> www.celestron.com...
Page 22 1. Press the Align controller to select Display Align from the list, and press Enter. Optional Accessories) or a high power eyepiece to precisely center the star in the center of the eyepiece. now be pointed towards the North Celestial Pole. >> www.celestron.com...
Page 23 NOTE: If the eastern horizon is blocked, you may choose a star near the western horizon, but you must reverse the polar high/low error directions. Also, if using this method in the southern hemisphere, the direction of drift is reversed for both R.A. and DEC. >> www.celestron.com...
Page 24: Planetary Observing Hints
This can damage the telescope and/or any accessories shadow of the telescope tube until it forms a circular shadow. attached to the telescope. >> www.celestron.com...
Page 25 Mars, and stars are pinpoint images. Under poor seeing conditions, images are blurred and stars appear as blobs. The conditions described here apply to both visual and photographic imperfect or smeared image. These atmospheric disturbances vary from observations. >> www.celestron.com...
Page 26 The exposure times listed in table 8-1 should be used as a starting point. Always make exposures that are longer and shorter than the recommended time. Also, take a few photos at each shutter speed. This will ensure that you will get a good photo. >> www.celestron.com...
Page 27 Polar Alignment section earlier in the manual. of the exposure (see accompanying table). 2. Remove all visual accessories. 3. Thread the Radial Guider onto your telescope. 8. Close the camera’s shutter. 4. Thread the T-Ring onto the Radial Guider. >> www.celestron.com...
Page 28 5. To begin recording the drive’s periodic error, press the MENU button buttons to display the Record option and press ENTER. You will have Metering observing session that PEC record or play is selected, the worm gear >> www.celestron.com...
Page 29: Reducing Vibration
The exposure lengths range from .03 to .1 seconds on Generally you will take one image after another until one looks good. exposures you might save 1. To image at f/20, you need to purchase a 2x Barlow and a T-adapter or Radial Guider. >> www.celestron.com...
Page 30: Auto Guiding
25 mA DC. 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 = No Connect 2 = Ground 3 = +RA (Right) 4 = +DEC (Up) 5 = -DEC (Down) 6 = -RA (Left) >> www.celestron.com...
Page 31 Before you begin the collimation process, be sure that your telescope is in thermal equilibrium with the surroundings. Allow 45 minutes for the telescope to reach equilibrium if you move it between large temperature extremes. >> www.celestron.com...
Page 32 The X-Cel LX with images that are oriented properly (upright and correct from 25 mm. Celestron Ultima LX Series Like telescopes, eyepieces come in a variety of designs. Plössl eyepieces have a 4-element lens designed for twist-up eyecups - Good for eyeglass wearers.
Page 33 A full description of all Celestron accessories can be found in the Celestron of the T-Adapter. This device allows you to photograph and guide Accessory Catalog (#93685).
Page 34: Optical Specification
Optical Speciﬁcation CPC Deluxe 800 HD – #11007 CPC Deluxe 925 HD – #11008 CPC Deluxe 1100 HD – #11009 Design 203 mm (8”) EdgeHD Optics 235 mm (9.25”) EdgeHD Optics 280 mm (11”) EdgeHD Optics Focal Length 2032 mm...
Page 35 Sun and one dim, small, red star orbiting around one another. Asterism C – night sky. Celestial Asteroid A small, rocky body that orbits a star. Equator Astrology into two equal hemispheres. >> www.celestron.com...
Page 36 A planet is far away but it can be resolved as a disk. Most stars cannot be resolved as apparent magnitude scale is arbitrary. disks, they are too far away. >> www.celestron.com...
Page 37 The boundary line between the light and dark has moved westward by about 30 degrees since portion of the Moon or a planet. U – longer coincide with the constellations. Universe The totality of astronomical things, events, relations >> www.celestron.com...
Page 38: Communication Protocol
32-bit GoTo Azm-Alt b34AB0500,12CE0500 32-bit get Azm-Alt 34AB0500,12CE0500# The last two characters will always be zero. 4-4 Modular Phone Jack DB9 Pin 3 PC Transmit DB9 Pin 2 DB9 Pin 5 PC Receive Ground >> www.celestron.com...
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Page 47 2015 Mar 20 Total 02m47s Europe, N. Africa, Asia 2016 Mar 09 Partial 04m09s Hawaii, Alaska 2017 Aug 21 Total 02m40s Across the U.S.! 2019 Jul 02 Total 04m33s S. America 2020 Dec 14 Total 02m10s S. America >> www.celestron.com...
Page 48 Some states do not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential damages or limitation on how long an implied warranty lasts, so the above limitations and exclusions may not apply to you. Celestron reserves the right to modify or discontinue, without prior notice to you, any model or style telescope. Customer Service Department...
Page 49 1. This device may not cause harmful interference, and 2. This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. ©2011 Celestron Product design and speciﬁcations are subject to change without prior notiﬁcation. Designed and intended for those 13 years of age and older.
Page 50 A FLEXIBLE IMAGING PLATFORM AT AN AFFORDABLE PRICE Superior ﬂat-ﬁeld, coma-free imaging by the Celestron Engineering Team Ver. 04-2013, For release in April 2013.
Page 51 SCT proved inadequate. To meet the requirements of the-edge astrophotography with both digital SLR cameras and observers, we wanted the new Celestron optic to be both free of astronomical CCD cameras. Finally, we wanted to leverage coma and to have virtually zero ﬁeld curvature.
Page 52 Edge HD 1400 FIGURE 1. Celestron’s EdgeHD series consists of four aplanatic telescopes with 8-, 9.25-, 11-, 14-inch apertures. The optical design of each instrument has been individually optimized to provide a ﬂat, coma-free focal plane. Each EdgeHD optic produces sharp images to the edge of the view with minimal vignetting.
Page 53 SCT to reduce or eliminate coma. cost to the telescope buyer. Furthermore, because it retains key elements of the classic SCT, the EdgeHD design is compatible with the popular Starizona Hyperstar accessory. The Celestron EdgeHD...
Page 54 ﬁeld curvature causes its off-axis images to become diffuse and out of focus. In comparison, the EdgeHD’s spot pattern is tight, concentrated, and remains small from on-axis to the edge of the ﬁeld. The Celestron EdgeHD...
Page 55 CCD. At the edge of a 40mm ﬁeld, the “coma-free” telescope’s stars have swelled to more than 100μm in diameter. Edge-of-ﬁeld star images appear large, soft, and out of focus. The Celestron EdgeHD...
Page 56 Because it covers a wide ﬁeld of view, the optical elements of focusing direction—has been an annoyance. In Celestron’s SCT the EdgeHD must meet centering and alignment tolerances and EdgeHD telescopes, we tightened the tolerances. During considerably tighter than those of the classic SCT design.
Page 57 Celestron’s founder, Tom Johnson, invented the breakthrough Each EdgeHD has ﬁve optical elements: an aspheric Schmidt process used to make Celestron’s corrector plates. Over the corrector plate, a spherical primary mirror, a spherical secondary mirror, and two sub-aperture corrector lenses. Each element is years, his original process has been developed and reﬁned.
Page 58 Celestron grinds the front surface of scattered light. In addition, the intra- and extra-focal diffraction primary mirrors with a succession of progressively ﬁ...
Page 59 EdgeHD’s ability to focus clean, neat, round star images from center to edge. The telescope was a 14-inch EdgeHD on a CGE Pro Mount; the CCD camera was an Apogee U16m. The mage above shows a 21.5×29.8mm section cropped from the original 36.8mm square image. The Celestron EdgeHD...
Page 60 ﬂawless when observing and imaging the night sky. 7. FINAL ACCEPTANCE TESTING AND CERTIFICATION Before it can leave Celestron’s facilities, every EdgeHD must pass its Final Acceptance Test, or FAT. We conduct the FAT on an optical test bench in a specially-constructed temperature- controlled room (Figure 12).
Page 61 Should a telescope performs exceptionally well on stars. You will see a round, clean be returned to Celestron for service, we can consult our records Airy disk, a single well-deﬁned diffraction ring, and symmetrical to see how well it performed before it left our facility.
Page 62 55mm.) refractor mounted piggyback on your EdgeHD telescope. You will need a dovetail bar attached to the EdgeHD tube. Celestron The T-mount system also makes spacing an astronomical CCD offers an 80mm guide telescope package (item #52309) to camera easy.
Page 63 Of course, the focal length of any EdgeHD telescope can be than EdgeHD 1100’s ƒ/10 or the EdgeHD 1400’s ƒ/11, we extended using a Barlow lens such as the Celestron 2x X-Cel designed a ﬁve-element 0.7× reducer lens for each of these LX (item #93529) or 3x X-Cel LX (item #93428).
Page 64 ﬂat ﬁeld of view. But, consumers want this advanced optical technology at an affordable price. Celestron has designed the EdgeHD to meet customers’ needs. The EdgeHD is not only coma-free, but it also provides a ﬂat ﬁeld so that stars are sharp to the very edge of the ﬁeld of view.
Page 65 With a small telescope, seeing plays a smaller role. With the large apertures and long focal lengths of the EdgeHD series, nights of good seeing become particularly valuable. The Celestron EdgeHD...
Page 66 Celestron EdgeHD 800 On-axis, the spots show that the 8-inch EdgeHD is diffraction- Although for bright subjects this minor falloff would pass limited in both green (for visual observing) and red (for imaging). unnoticed, for imaging faint objects we recommend making and And because blue rays are strongly concentrated inside the applying ﬂat-ﬁeld images for the best results.
Page 67 Celestron EdgeHD 925 The spot matrix shows that on-axis images are diffraction of a 42mm ﬁeld. Relative illumination in the EdgeHD 925 is limited at all three wavelengths, and remain diffraction-limited excellent. The central 12mm is completely free of vignetting, over the central 15mm.
Page 68 Celestron EdgeHD 1100 The 11-inch EdgeHD is optimized to produce its sharpest On nights when the seeing achieves 1.5 arcseconds FWHM, images in green and red; at these wavelengths it is diffraction- star images shrink to 18μm at the focal plane. On such nights, limited over roughly two-thirds of the full 42mm image circle.
Page 69 Celestron EdgeHD 1400 In the matrix spot diagrams, note the tight cluster of rays in image sensor. We have seen excellent results when the green light, and the well balanced spherochromatism in the 14-inch EdgeHD is used with a KAF-16803 CCD camera over blue and red.
Page 70 The CNC-machined housing easily supports the full weight of your CCD camera or digital SLR camera without sag or movement. And for safe storage, each unit is provided with threaded metal covers for both the front and the back. The Celestron EdgeHD...
Page 71 Celestron EdgeHD 0.7× Reducer Large T-Adapter T-Ring Adapter Digital SLR EdgeHD 1100 and 1400 5.75 inches 146.05±0.5 mm 0.7× Reducer Large T-Adapter T-system Spacer CCD Camera The matrix spot diagrams show that the bulk of rays cluster For observers who wish to pursue faint nebulae in RGB or in tightly in or near the Airy disk, with a diffuse scatter most strongly narrowband, the 0.7×...
Page 72 Image by André Paquette Imagine the thrill of seeing the ﬁrst images from your Celestron EdgeHD! A quick glance at the whole image shows that you have captured your target’s faint outer extensions. Across the ﬁeld, from one side to the other, star images are sharp, crisp, and round. As you process your image, ﬁne details in the target object reveal themselves.
Page 74 Combining Celestron’s newly designed dual fork arm 80 mm Guidescope Package computerized mount with its award winning EdgeHD 52309 optical system, the NEW CPC Deluxe HD Series offers you a high definition experience! CPC Deluxe 1100 HD 11009 NexGuide Autoguider...
Page 75: Specifications
11007 11008 11009 The wait is over! Celestron’s award winning EdgeHD optical system is now available on a newly designed top-of-the-line dual fork arm computerized mount – The CPC Deluxe HD. Available in 8”, 9.25” and 11” models, the CPC Deluxe HD telescope line re-defines everything that amateur astronomers are looking for –ease of use, quick and simple GPS alignment, improved ergonomics, enhanced computerization, unsurpassed optical quality and most importantly, affordability.

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