User's Manual

AutoStar #497 HANDBOX
Advanced AutoStar II Features
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5. Press the Scroll Up key twice and “Object:
Landmarks” displays. Press ENTER. “Landmark:
Select” displays.
6. Press the Scroll Down key once. “Landmark:
Add” displays. Press ENTER.
7. “Landmark Name” displays. Using Arrow keys,
enter a name for the landmark you wish to add to
the database. When fi nished, press ENTER.
8. “Center Landmark. Press Enter” displays. Using
only the Arrow keys (do not manually move the
telescope), move the telescope to the desired
landmark and center the object in the eyepiece.
Press Enter. The object is now stored in memory.
9. “Landmark: Add” displays. If you wish to add
more landmarks, repeat steps 5 through 8.
To Select a landmark from the database:
1. Make sure the telescope is located and aligned
exactly as when the desired landmark was
entered into memory.
2. Display the “Landmark: Select” menu option.
Press ENTER.
3. Use the Scroll keys to scroll through the list of
objects you have previously entered. When the
desired object displays, press ENTER to select
the object.
Use the Scroll keys to scroll through location
information about the object, if desired. Press GO
TO to slew the telescope to the landmark.
4. Press MODE to exit.
To perform a Landmark Survey:
This procedure allows you to perform a tour of the objects
entered in the “Object: Landmark” menu option—note that the
Landmark Survey will function only if you have previously entered
objects in the Landmark menu.
1. Navigate to “Utilities: Landmark Survey” menu
and press ENTER.
2. “Landmark Survey: Slewing...” displays. The
telescope moves to the fi rst object on the Survey
list and displays the name of the object.
3. Press MODE to stop the Survey. Press Enter to
restart the survey at the fi rst object of the survey.
To check on the available amount of memory in AutoStar II:
AutoStar II has a limited amount of memory. Once you begin to
store Landmarks, user objects and other bits of information in
AutoStar II, you will begin to use up memory. This procedure
allows you to check on how much memory is still available.
1. Navigate to the “Setup: Statistics” menu option
and press ENTER.
2. “Statistics: 37.2K Char. Free” displays. This is
the amount of memory that is still available to the
user.
Identify
This procedure allows you to use AutoStar II to identify objects
you have found in the night sky using the Arrow keys. If the object
is not in AutoStar II’s database, AutoStar II displays information
about an object in its database that is closest to the one you
queried about.
Important Note: For this function to operate properly, you
must fi rst initialize and align AutoStar II. If you physically
move the telescope after initialization, this function will fail
to operate properly.
In this procedure, you will center an object you wish to have
identifi ed by AutoStar II in the telescope eyepiece and use the
“Identify” menu to fi nd out information about the object or the
nearest object to it in the AutoStar II database.
1. Center the object you wish to have identifi ed in
the telescope’s eyepiece.
2. Navigate to the “Object: Identify” option and
press ENTER.
3. “Searching...” displays. When AutoStar II fi nishes
calculating, the name of the closest object
displays.
4. Press a Scroll key to display information about
this object. AutoStar II displays some or all of the
following information about the object with each
press of a Scroll key:
Displayed information: Example:
Catalog or common name of object Messier 107, NGC6171,
Orion Nebula, etc
Type of object Globular Cluster, Nebula,
Black Hole, etc.
Right Ascension 16:32:4
Declination 13°03'
Constellation Virgo, Orion, etc.