Meade instruction manual LX200 Keypad Hand Controller

IMPORTANT NOTICE! Never use a telescope or spotting scope to look at the Sun!

Observing the Sun, even for the shortest fraction of a

second, will cause irreversible damage to your eye as well as physical damage to the telescope or spotting scope itself.

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E. THE LX200 KEYPAD HAND CONTROLLER

Designed to make you a better astronomer, the integration of optics, mechanics, electronics, and software in the LX200 Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope is easily mastered, so easy, in fact that the telescope becomes a natural extension of the observer.

The LX200 gives you virtually every telescope function possible with every control in a compact hand held console. The red LED backlit Keypad has tactile touch buttons (some of which are brighter than others), designed to have the right feel even if you wear gloves. Its

red LED backlit display, key arrangement, and easy to understand information allow you to focus the telescope and your mind on the subject at hand.

The LX200 Keypad Hand Controller is a dual axis drive corrector with periodic error control, an information display center for the computerized library, a digital coordinate readout system, a pulsing, illuminated reticle eyepiece brightness controller, a two speed electric focuser controller, and a red LED flashlight! You will find within a few minutes of powering up the LX200 that the Keypad becomes warm, which is normal for the system. The electronics utilize a heat sink as a means to provide the right operating environment temperature for the LCD display even in sub-zero weather. If you are indeed in these colder conditions, the display may not be visible until the Keypad has transferred enough heat. This process can take a few minutes upon powering up the telescope. While severe cold weather is not damaging to the electronics, it is advised to keep the Keypad in a warmer area to allow immediate proper display performance.

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