LX90 Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope | Meade instruction

Instruction Manual

8" LX90 Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope

AutoStar® — LNT™ — SmartFinder™

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Meade instruction manual LX90 Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope

Contents

LX90 Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope Meade Schmidt-Cassegrain Optical System Contents QUICK-START Guide ON/OFF E D Telescope FeaturesPage To Attach the Handbox Holder Tour the Cosmos with Just the Push of a Button Autostar Features Topmost screen Select Item Object Page Getting Started How to Attach the Tripod to the Telescope Assembly Precautionary notes for the tripod How to Assemble Your Telescope Choosing an Eyepiece Using SmartFinder Aligning the Viewfinder Aligning SmartFinder Observing Observing Using AutoStars Arrow KeysObserving By Moving the Telescope Manually Terrestrial Observing Observe the Moon Slew Speeds To Track an Object Automatically Astronomical ObservingMoving Through AutoStar’s Menus Initializing AutoStar for the First Time How to perform the Automatic Alignment procedure Observe a Star using the Automatic Tracking FeatureAutomatic Alignment While it does so Go To Saturn Using the Guided Tour AutoStar Navigation Exercise Basic Autostar Operation Navigating AutoStar Entering Data into AutoStarTo Calculate Sunset time Select Item Object AUTOSTAR’S Menus Object Menu Menus and Menu Options Glossary Menu Event MenuUtilities Menu Observing Considerations Setup Menu Time Zone Shift Menu Daylight SAVING, Adding Observing Sites Advanced Autostar FeaturesTo Add a Site to the user-defined site list To Edit a Site Using AutoStar to Find Objects Not in the Database To GO to a user-entered object Observing Satellites Command Line How to Create Your Own Guided TourWhat you will need Tour Modes Title Writing a Tour Pick END Downloading Tours LandmarksTo Add a landmark to the database To Select a landmark from the database Advanced Alt/Az Alignment IdentifyTo perform a Landmark Survey To check on the available amount of memory in AutoStar Two-Star Alt/Az Alignment BrowseOne-Star Alt/Az Alignment Few tips on photography with the LX90 Photography with the LX90Photography with a Digital Camera Meade Deep Sky Imager Photography with Meade’s AutoStar Suite Eyepiece Power 2x Barlow Super Plössl 4-elements Optional AccessoriesSuper Wide Angle 6-elements Ultra Wide Angle 8-elements #62 T-Adapter Collimation MaintenancePage Inspecting the Optics Meade Customer ServiceGauging the Movement of the Telescope AutoStar Specifications LX90 SpecificationsAutoStar Dimensions Celestial Coordinates Polar Alignment Locating the Celestial Pole Setting CirclesAutoStar Polar Alignment Easy Polar Alignment Equatorial Wedge Lining Up with the Celestial Pole Precise Polar Alignment Star Charts City State/Prov./Country Latitude Latitude Chart for Major Cities of the WorldCity Country Latitude City State/Country Latitude Appendix C Training the Drive To replace the battery Appendix D Changing the LNT Module Battery Objects in Space AutoStar GlossaryMoon Deep-Sky Objects PlanetsPage Page Page Meade Limited Warranty