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WARNING!

Never use a Meade® NGC™ or NG™ Telescope to look at the Sun! Looking at or near the Sun will cause instant and irre- versible damage to your eye. Eye damage is often painless, so there is no warning to the observer that damage has occurred until it is too late. Do not point the telescope or its viewfinder at or near the Sun. Do not look through the telescope or its viewfinder as it is moving. Children should always have adult supervision while observing.

CAUTION: Use care to install batteries in the orientation indicated by the battery connec- tor. Follow battery manufacturer's precau- tions. If these precautions are not followed, batteries may explode, catch fire, or leak. Improperly installed batteries void your Meade warranty.

Patents:

US 6,392,799

Utility Patent Pending.

CONTENTS
Telescope and Features	4
Telescope and Tripod Features	6
Getting Started	8
Parts Listing	8
How to Assemble Your Telescope	8
Attaching and Aligning the Red Dot Viewfinder	9
Choosing an Eyepiece	9
Simple Observations	10
Initializing the Control Panel	11
Easy Alignment	11
Go To Saturn	12
Using the Guided Tour	14
Menus	14
The NGC Menu Structure	15
How to Move through the Menu Options	15
How to Calculate Sunset Time Example	15
Object Menu	16
Event Menu	16
Glossary Menu	17
Utilities Menu	17
Setup Menu	18
Optional Accessories	19
Maintenance	20
General Maintenance	20
Storage and Transport	20
Troubleshooting	20
Meade Customer Service	21
Specifications	21
Appendix A: Advanced Features	22
Celestial Coordinates	22
Entering Coordinates for Objects not in Database ..	22
To Go to a User-Entered Object	23
Landmarks	23
To Add a Landmark to the database	23
To Select a Landmark from the database	23
Appendix B: Entering Time/Date Manually	24
Appendix C: Batteries	25
Basic Astronomy	26