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Looking at or near the
Sun
will cause
irreversible
damage to your eye. Do not point this tele-
scope at or near the Sun. Do not look through the telescope as it is moving.
•
Magic Eye software-assisted focusing.
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Automatic and manual exposure control from .001 to 15 seconds (up to 450x
longer than web cams).
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Automatically takes multiple exposures.
The AutoStar Suite Software includes powerful tools to help you get the most from
your Meade LX200R telescope:
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Sophisticated planetarium program with over 19 million objects.
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Select objects from the planetarium display and the telescope slews to
those objects.
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Create time-lapse movies of objects, such as Jupiter
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Create your own Guided Tours.
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Advanced Image Processing Software including Unsharp Masking, Convolution
Filtering and many other features.
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Control all AutoStar functions from your PC.
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Talking Telescope software translates AutoStar text to synthesized speech
through PC speaker.
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Includes a cable to connect your LX200R model to your PC.
See the CD Rom that is included with AutoStar Suite for more information and
instruction manual.
Fig. 25:
Image of M13 captured with the
Deep Sky Imager.
Fig. 26:
Image of M51 captured with
the Deep Sky Imager.
LX200R TIPS
Star Charts
Even with the AutoStar II's massive 145,000 object library, star charts and
planispheres are still useful for a variety of reasons. In particular, they are a
great aid in planning a night of celestial viewing.
A wide variety of star charts are available in books, in magazines, on the inter-
net and on CD Roms. Meade offers Epoch 2000sk
™
and other star locator
software. Contact your Meade dealer or Meade's Customer Service depart-
ment for more information.
Astronomy and Sky and Telescope magazines print star charts each month
for up-to-the-minute maps of the heavens.