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RCX400 instruction manual
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Specs
Appendix A Latitude Chart
Warranty
Maintenance
Presets
Setup Menu
Pedestal Assembly
Periodic Error Correction
Timer and Alarm Status Date Site coordinates
Weight
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Contents
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DANGER
CONTENTS
TELESCOPE FEATURES
Components of MAX
PEDESTAL WEDGE ASSEMBLY
Pedestal Assembly
THE RA ASSEMBLY
Right Ascension Housing Assembly
DEC ASSEMBLY
Declination Housing Assembly
THE TRIPOD
THE COUNTER- WEIGHTS
Counterweights
MAX Tripod
Optical Tube Assembly
THE OTA
CONTROL PANELS AND PORTS
RA ASSEMBLY
use one of the Saddle panel Smart Accessory ports
CONTROL PANEL SADDLE CONTROL PANEL
Tour the Cosmos with Just the Push of a Button
AUTOSTAR II FEATURES
1K
Library
Top line Lists the primary menu
Timer and Alarm Status Date Site coordinates
Battery status
Local Time and Local Sidereal Time LST
5 SS: Press to display the Solar System library
Tripod Assembly
ASSEMBLY
Pedestal Assembly and Adjusting Latitude Position
11 A
THE RA ASSEMBLY
14 THE DEC SADDLE ASSEMBLY
15 B
ATTACH COUNTERWEIGHTS
20 A 20 B
ATTACH LOW LATITUDE COUNTERWEIGHTS
22 B
B DANGER! MAKE SURE THAT THE COUNTERWEIGHTS
ELECTRICAL CONNECTIONS
ALIGN THE VIEWFINDER WITH THE OTA
TO BALANCE THE RA ASSEMBLY
HOME POSITION AND BALANCING THE OTA
Dec axis is from 1 in the Dec Balance menu
GETTING STARTED
g ih
b c d
Align the Viewfinder
To define a preset
Focusing the Telescope
Presets
Focusing Telescopes Equipped with a Microfocuser
Slew Speeds
To select a previously defined focus preset
To sync on a focus preset
Important Note
Important Note
Aligning for the First Time
To prepare your telescope for Automatic Alignment
Collimation
How to Drift Align Max Northern Hemisphere
Test your Collimation
OTA Alignment
Fig. 42b The OTA align bolt
Bolts
Calibrate Home
Parking the Scope
Autostar II Navigation Exercise
BASIC AUTOSTAR
To Calculate Sunset time
Example of Locating a menu
Navigating Autostar
AUTOSTAR IIs MENUS
Object Menu
To slew the telescope to catalog objects
Glossary Menu
Event Menu
Utilities Menu
ENTER
Setup Menu
c.Solar Choose this option when observing the Sun
Smart Mount See page 55 for detailed information
Hot Button Menus
To Add a Site to the user-definedsite list
ADVANCED AUTOSTAR II FEATURES
Adding Observing Sites
To Edit a Site
Creating User Objects
To GO TO a user-enteredobject
Observing Satellites
Identify
Browse
Displayed information
Two-StarPolar Alignment
Alternate Polar Alignments
Initialize Autostar
Easy Polar Alignment
Train Menu Option
Periodic Error Correction
Update Menu Option
Erase Menu Option
OPTIONAL ACCESSORIES
Meade Series 4000 Eyepieces
Fig. 52 Illuminated Reticle Eyepiece
Fig. 50 Series 4000 8 - 24mm Zoom Eyepiece
Fig. 53 #62 T-Adapter
Contact your Meade dealer for more information
MAINTENANCE
TELESCOPE SPECIFICATIONS
Autostar II Handbox Specifications
Advanced Autostar II System Specifications
Meade Consumer Solutions
City
APPENDIX A LATITUDE CHART
Latitude Chart for Major Cities of the World
State/Prov./Country
APPENDIX B THE MOON
Operation
APPENDIX C Smart Mount
Introduction
Training
Other Menus Options Save As and Load
Update
Permanently Mounted Scopes
Erase
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MEADE LIMITED WARRANTY
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