Operation Manual

SkyProdigy will then take an image of the sky and calibrate the

center of the camera sensor with the star seen in the eyepiece.

Note: In order to manually slew the telescope and center a bright

star in the eyepiece it may be necessary to rst align the StarPointer

nderscope with the eyepiece. For instructions on aligning the

nderscope, see StarPointer Operation in the Assembly section of

this manual.

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exposure time settings for the camera to use under dierent sky

conditions. Capture Setting should be changed only if you are

having diculties aligning the telescope using the StarSense

alignment method. The options below represent various condi-

tions that could result in unsuccessful alignment under normal

capture settings.

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brighten the sky enough to aect alignment.

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limit the brightness of stars that the camera can image.

These setting represents the default setting that should work

under most conditions.

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city lights which can adversely aect alignment.

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record too many stars, needlessly prolonging the processing

time.

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not be processed by the camera.

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in case any of the above setting do not apply.

After making changes to the capture settings, perform a

StarSense Auto, or Manual alignment and observe the number

of stars that are acquired for each image. A minimum of 8 stars

are needed, but 20-50 stars produce the best results. If your

captured images are not recording enough stars, go to the

Custom setting. Increasing the gain or exposure time has the

potential to increase the number of stars detected up to

the threshold for your observing location, the wind and

other factors.