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MAX-ACF
instruction manual
Specifications
Appendix a Latitude Chart
Periodic Error Correction
Warranty
Maintenance
To sync on a focus preset
Optional Accessories
Setup Menu
Pedestal Assembly
This Procedure
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Components of MAX
Telescope Features
Pedestal Assembly
Pedestal Wedge Assembly
Right Ascension Housing Assembly
RA Assembly
Declination Housing Assembly
DEC Assembly
MAX Tripod
COUNTER- Weights
Counterweights
Tripod
MaleTHE OTA
Optical Tube Assembly
Control Panels and Ports
RA Assembly Control Panel Saddle Control Panel
Library # of Objects
Autostar II Features
Tour the Cosmos with Just the Push of a Button
Sun. Do not look through the telescope as it is moving
Sun. Do not look through the telescope as it is moving
Pedestal Assembly and Adjusting Latitude Position
Tripod Assembly
If you need to set for low range or high range
Latitude Adjustment
Assembly Requires TWO People to Lift
RA Assembly
DEC Saddle Assembly
Attach Counterweight Assembly
21 B
Attach Optical Tube to the DEC Saddle
Attach LOW Latitude Counterweights
When end
Align the Viewfinder with the OTA
Electrical Connections
Home Position and Balancing the OTA
To Balance the RA Assembly
Balance the DEC Axis
This Procedure
Align the Viewfinder
Mounting and Focusing the Viewfinder for the First Time
Getting Started
Focusing the Telescope
To exit the focus operation at any time
To select a previously defined focus preset
To sync on a focus preset
Slew Speeds
To prepare your telescope for Automatic Alignment
Aligning for the First Time
Test your Collimation
How to Drift Align Max Northern Hemisphere
Collimation
OTA align bolt. Misaligned 1, 2, Aligned
Follow these steps for collimation of the optical system
Parking the Scope
Calibrate Home
To Calculate Sunset time
Basic Autostar
Autostar II Navigation Exercise
Navigating Autostar
Example of Locating a menu
Autostar IIs Menus
To slew the telescope to catalog objects
Object Menu
Utilities Menu
Event Menu
Glossary Menu
Enter
Setup Menu
Sun. Do not look through the telescope as it is moving
Setup Menu Daylight SAVING, above
Hot Button Menus
To Edit a Site
Adding Observing Sites
To Add a Site to the user-defined site list
To GO to a user-entered object
Creating User Objects
Identify
Observing Satellites
Displayed information Example
Browse
Easy Polar Alignment
Alternate Polar Alignments
Initialize Autostar
Two-Star Polar Alignment
Erase Menu Option
Periodic Error Correction
Update Menu Option
Train Menu Option
Meade Series 4000 Eyepieces
Optional Accessories
Rear cells of Meade Schmidt-Cassegrain models
Deep Sky Imager
Maintenance
Telescope Specifications
Meade Consumer Solutions
Advanced Autostar II System Specifications
Autostar II Handbox Specifications
City Country Latitude
Appendix a Latitude Chart
Latitude Chart for Major Cities of the World
City State/Prov./Country Latitude
Appendix B the Moon
To observe the Apollo 15 landing site using the Moon option
Training
Introduction
Operation
Off
Update
Permanently Mounted Scopes
Other Menus Options Save As and Load
Appendix D How to Read the Latitude Scale
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