Yamaha G SERIES manual Chapter Select And Slew

Appendix:

Check Appendix B and Appendix C for names of galaxies and constellations

WARNING:

NEVER LOOK DIRECTLY AT THE SUN WITH THE NAKED EYES OR WITH

ATELESCOPE(UNLESS YOU HAVE THE PROPER SOLAR FILTER). PERMANENT AND IRREVERSIBLE EYE DAMAGE MAY RESULT.

TIP:

You can define and save new celestial objects in the database.

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Chapter. 2 Select And Slew

After you have finished the set up and align steps in chapter 1 go to the main menu. Select “Select and slew.” Now you can select any celestial objects in the database and GoToNovaTM will take you there—whether it is a star, a planet, an asteroid, a comet or a galaxy.

Check astronomy books and magazines such as “Sky and Telescope.” Familiarize yourself with the names in the night sky. Use the arrow buttons to move your cursor and press ENTER to select an object.

2.1Planets, sun, moon

This menu includes the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

WARNING: NEVER LOOK DIRECTLY AT THE SUN WITH THE NAKED EYES OR WITH A TELESCOPE (UNLESS YOU HAVE THE PROPER SOLAR FILTER). PERMANENT AND IRREVERSIBLE EYE DAMAGE MAY RESULT.

2.2Deep Sky Objects

This menu includes objects outside our Solar system such as galaxies, star clusters, quasars, nebulae, etc.

2.2.1Named Deep Sky Objects

This menu contains 60 named deep sky objects. If you know the names of the objects you can use this menu.

2.2.2Messier Catalogue

Contains 110 objects from the Messier catalogue.

2.3Comets

Contains up to 256 comets.

2.4Asteroids

Contains up to 4096 asteroids.

2.5Stars

2.5.1Named Stars Contains 191 stars.

2.5.2Constellations

Contains 88 constellations.

2.5.3Double Stars Contains 40 double stars.

2.5.4SAO Bright Stars

Contains up to 26,584 SAO bright stars.

2.6Constellations

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