Meade LX200 Mode Functions, Toc 1. Mode One TELESCOPE/ Object Library, Toc a. Telescope Menu File

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G. MODE FUNCTIONS

To view the separate modes within the LX200 system, press the MODE button located between the ENTER and GO TO keys at the top of the hand controller. Simple entry and editing of information in the different modes contained within the system, will customize the operation of your LX200 to perform virtually any of your observing requirements. Better still, all of the critical information such as time, location, alignment type, and many other functions are kept in memory...even with the LX200 turned off!

The type of alignment, the objects that you see, the location that you observe from, the tracking speeds of the drives, all of the clock and timing functions, the position information, and even the brightness level of the backlit Keypad are defined by the information that you give and/ or the commands that you edit, through five different modes of the LX200 computerized hand controller.

Once you have selected the desired mode, you can then select the individual file within the mode by pressing the PREV or NEXT key (up and down arrow key) in the bottom right hand portion of the hand controller, moving the LCD arrow up or down beside the file description. Although you will only be able to see two menu selections at a time in the Keypad Display, you will see more as you continue to press the PREV and NEXT keys.

When the desired file is chosen, press the ENTER key to view the file's menu. To choose an individual menu, again use the PREV or NEXT key to run the LCD arrow up or down the file's menu. To explore a menu selection, again press the ENTER key. In some modes there will be options for a file's menu selection, in others you will only enter data.

At any time that you wish to return to main file heading in a particular mode, just press MODE and it will behave as an exit key.

[ toc ] 1. Mode One: TELESCOPE/ OBJECT LIBRARY

This is the mode that the LX200 will default to after the instrument completes its self-check, when the LX200 is first turned on. The TELESCOPE/OBJECT LIBRARY mode can be thought of as command central. It is here that we can select the way that we want the LX200 to perform mechanically, and where we can explore and select from its extensive library of stored objects.

To explore either the TELESCOPE menu file or the OBJECT LIBRARY menu file, move the LCD arrow to the appropriate selection by using the PREV or the NEXT key and press the ENTER key.

[ toc ] a. TELESCOPE Menu File

Below are the eleven menu selections of the TELESCOPE menu file illustrating the individual menu files and file options.

[ toc ] 1) SITE

The SITE menu option allows you to enter up to four of your favorite viewing locations in longitude and

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