Meade Instruments Corporation - Meade LX200 Instruction Manuals
With all celestial objects therefore capable of being specified in position by their celestial coordinates of Right Ascension and Declination, the task of finding objects (in particular, faint objects) in the telescope is vastly simplified. The setting circles, R.A (10, Fig. 3) and Dec. (3, Fig. 3) of the LX200 7", 8", 10", and 12" telescopes may be dialed, in effect, to read the object coordinates and the object found without resorting to visual location techniques. However, these setting circles may be used to advantage only if the telescope is first properly aligned with the North Celestial Pole.
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