Meade Instruments Corporation
7 LX200 Maksutov-CassegrainTelescope
8, 10, and 12 LX200 Schmidt-CassegrainTelescopes
Instruction Manual
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Contents
INTRODUCTION
1. What Is the LX200? An Overview
2. Standard Equipment
e. Keypad and Power Panel Functions
4. Caution: All LX200 Owners
1. What You Should Have
2. Please Look Everything Over
3. Inspecting the Optics
TELESCOPE ASSEMBLY
1. The Field Tripod
c.Collimating the Viewfinder
b. Focusing the Viewfinder
2. Mounting the Viewfinder
a. Attaching the Viewfinder
1. Using the LX200 Manually
2. Using the LX200 In LAND
QUICK START
3. Using the LX200 In ALTAZ Altazimuth
a. Entering Basic Information
b. Location of the Observing Site
c. Local Time and Date
d. Setting Up the Telescope
e. Using the MODE Key
4. Star Alignment
f. Library Object Keys
c. Unknown SITE
d. Which Alignment Method to Use?
2. MODE Key
4. Direction Keys
THE LX200 KEYPAD HAND CONTROLLER
1. ENTER Key
4. DEC Motor Connector
THE LX200 POWER PANEL
1. ON/OFF Switch
2. N/S Switch
8. Reticle Connector
5. CCD Connector
6. Power 12 vDC Connector
7. Keypad Connector
NOTE: Pressing the MODE key at any point in the
The SMART menu has five options. They are; LEARN, UPDATE, ERASE, DEC LEARN, and DEC CORRECT. To use the Smart Drive, the LX200 must be mounted with the optional equatorial wedge see APPENDIX A, page 25, equipped with an illuminated reticle eyepiece*, and used in the POLAR align menu selection. Be sure to train the Smart Drive in the 60.1 Hz Quartz setting that the LX200 will be automatically set at power up. Thereafter, you can adjust this setting in the TIMER/ FREQ mode and still enjoy the periodic error correction
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b. OBJECT LIBRARY Menu File
OBJECT SYMBOL LEGEND
b. GO TO Menu Option
4. Mode Four: TIMER/FREQ a. TIMER = Menu Option
2. Mode Two: COORDINATES/GO TO
a. Coordinates Menu File
5. Mode Five: KEYPAD OFF/BRIGHTNESS ADJUST
MAGNIFICATION AND FIELD OF VIEW 1. Magnification
2. Apparent Field and Actual Field
a. Azimuth Control
1. 8 Equatorial Wedge For 7 and 8 LX200
b. Deluxe Latitude Adjuster
APPENDIX A: EQUATORIAL WEDGE
3. Mounting the Telescope On the Wedge
2.SUPERWEDGE For 10 and 12LX200
4. Magnetic Compass
a. Setting Magnetic Declination
b. Compass Installation
c. Finding True North
APPENDIX B: EQUATORIAL USE
1. Celestial Coordinates
2. Lining Up with the Celestial Pole
3. Precise Polar Alignment
APPENDIX C LX200 ALIGNMENTSTAR LIBRARY
1. Alignment Stars
AND STAR CHARTS
LX200 ALIGNMENT STAR LIBRARY
2. Star Charts for Northern Hemisphere Observers
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APPENDIX D: LX200 64,359 OBJECT LIBRARY
a. SAO Catalog
b. UGC Catalog
c. CNGC Catalog
g. M Messier Catalog
d. 1C Catalog
e. GCVS Catalog
f. Star Catalog
1200ly
2. CNGC Catalog
Little Dumbbell Nebula
9.1x4.1
Red Faint/Low Contrast
CNGC Catalog continued
Tarantula Nebula Very Red
30 Dor Nebula part
CNGC#
CNGC Catalog continued
10.2x1.9 Near Edge-On
CNGC Catalog continued
CNGC Catalog continued
Bubble Nebula Red
CNGC Catalog continued
c1 S
c1 S
3. STAR Catalog
STAR Catalog continued
Seginus
STAR Catalog continued
STAR Catalog continued
Sadalmelik Al Nair
STAR Catalog continued
STAR#
STAR Catalog continued
4. M Messier Catalog
NearM95
M Messier Catalog continued
M93 Includes dark nebula
Near M96
APPENDIX E: MAINTAINING YOUR LX200
1. Keeping Your Telescope Clean
NOTE: The 7 LX200 does not require Collimation
2. Collimation of the Optical System
4. Behind the Power Panel
3. Right Ascension Lock
5. Factory Servicing and Repairs
APPENDIX F: LX200 PERSONAL COMPUTER CONTROL
1. RS-232Cable
2.LX200 Test Program
NOTE: Only 3 wires are required
Hours, minutes, and tenths of minutes
3. LX200 Command Set
a. Command Set Formats
b. General Telescope Information
Sefs object altitude for MA command
c. Telescope Motion
d. Home Position
e. Library/Objects
Starts a FIND operation
f. Miscellaneous
Gets the field radius of the FIELD operation
Sets the field radius of the FIELD operation
KEY14 ON ON KEY14 GOSUB key14 GOSUB status
4. LX200 Demo Program
counter =
ON KEY12 GOSUB key12 KEY13 ON ONKEY13GOSUBkey13
REM KEYS
keyi
KEYS PRINT #1,#:RC# LOCATE 24, 1: PRINT
Telescope
APPENDIX G: LX200 SPECIFICATIONS
200 f/10
Accessories
8 LX200I/10
10 LX200f/10
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