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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.

Navigate to "Utilities: Landmark Survey" menu and press ENTER.

2. "Landmark Survey: Slewing..." displays. The telescope moves to the first object on the

Survey list and displays the name of the object.

Press MODE to pause the Survey. Press ENTER to restart the survey at the first object of

the survey.

To check on the available amount of memory in AutoStar.

AutoStar has a limited amount of memory. Once you begin to store Landmarks, User Objects

and other bits of information in AutoStar, 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 to identify objects you have found in the night sky

using the Arrow keys. If the object is not in AutoStar's database, AutoStar 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 initialize

AutoStar (see page 18). Set the home position if you are using One-Star, Two-Star

or Easy Alignment—see page 38. If you physically move the telescope after initial-

ization, this function will fail to operate properly.

In this procedure, you will center an object you wish to have identified by AutoStar in the

telescope eyepiece and use the "Identify" menu to find out information about the object or the

nearest object to it in the AutoStar database.

Center the object y

ou wish to have identified in the telescope's eyepiece.

2. Navigate to the "Object: Identify" option and press ENTER.

3. "Searching..." displays. When AutoStar finishes calculating, the name of the closest object

displays.

4. Press a Scroll key to display information about this object. AutoStar displays some or all

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, Or

ion Neb

ula, etc

ype of object Globular Cluster, Nebula, Black Hole, etc.

Right Ascension 16:32:4

Declination

03'

Constellation Virgo, Orion, etc.

Magnitude 3

Size 2'

Scrolling message "This Globular Cluster is 10,000 light years

away...."

Advanced Alt/Az Alignment

If y

ou w

ould r

ather choose y

our own alignment stars from the AutoStar database during the

Alt/Az alignment procedure

, AutoStar offers two methods. Information for Equatorial (Polar)

alignment is discussed in "APPENDIX A," page 46.

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