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Star Charts (for Northern Hemisphere observers, part 2)

  

 

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Summary of Contents for Magellan II

Page 1: ...nt to any object in the sky Telescopes with clock drives like the Meade Starfinder Equatorial have the axis of rotation such that rotation about the celestial pole is possible This is called a Polar configuration Magellan is a sophisticated microprocessor system that is programmed to understand the relationship between the moving sky and Polar configurations of a telescope For the Magellan to oper...

Page 2: ... operation are found in the Serial Interface section of this manual III Hand Controller A Liquid Crystal Display The large Liquid Crystal Display LCD has two rows of 16 characters for displaying Magellan function menus telescope position and object information The LCD has red LED s to back light the display and can be adjusted to 16 levels of brightness B Keys Magellan II has a 19 key back lighted...

Page 3: ...isplay LED s associated with each key along the right side of the handbox Keys 2 3 5 6 and 9 are used as catalog selection keys when not in an editing mode The CNGC Catalog can be selected by pressing the CNGC key 3 The Star Catalog and Planets can be selected by pressing the STAR key 6 The Messier Object Catalog is selected using the M key 9 The IC Catalog is selected by pressing the 2 key The Us...

Page 4: ... telescope to the object As you move to various parts of the sky you may find that object positions differ slightly from the position indicated by Magellan These differences arise from inaccuracies in leveling squaring or centering stars during the initial alignment You can make minor corrections to the alignment by synchronizing Magellan on any object within the Magellan catalogs This is done by ...

Page 5: ...nge is set at the bottom of the scale on VP When using the START FIND menu selection it will select all objects that are very poor through super or what could be considered an ALL setting The object quality symbols are SU Super EX Excellent VG Very Good G Good FR Fair PR Poor VP Very Poor If you wish to define the visual object quality range to very good and better press ENTER and the blinking cur...

Page 6: ...isplay the first of these 125 possible selections Pressing PREV NEXT will scroll through the user items Press ENTER to select a particular user item that you want changed or added Pressing PREV NEXT will move you through the catalogs options press ENTER when you have the object library you wish to choose from You may then enter the object number with the keypad as in previous menus followed by ENT...

Page 7: ...s shipped with your telescope If the standard value of the encoder is different due to a change in gear ratios a note will appear in the installation instructions which will direct you to change this ratio setting Press ENTER to select the Encoder function and change the ratios as needed by using the keypad as in previous examples 5 Reverse N S The Reverse N S menu selection reverses the direction...

Page 8: ... original condition A short duration press of ENTER will start the timer counting down Pressing ENTER quickly will toggle the timer from running to stopped and stopped to running When running the timer will continue to count down even if the display is not visible Upon returning to the timer display the time remaining will be accurate and available to the user 2 Local Time The local time display s...

Page 9: ...ion and observing conditions used to obtain the visual quality ratings It is a good indication of what can be expected with similar equipment by experienced deep sky observers in excellent sky conditions Naturally smaller telescopes and or less optimal observing conditions will lower the apparent quality of all objects B IC The Index Catalog IC is an extension of the NGC catalog and includes objec...

Page 10: ...ble 1 Magellan II RS 232 Connector Pin Out Code Legend VII Appendix A The following stars from the STAR catalog are excellent beacons for alignment and are used in that process They are also spread throughout the sky to allow allowing a selection of several during any given night or season They also make excellent objects for the synchronize function of Magellan which will improve the pointing acc...

Page 11: ...Star Charts for Northern Hemisphere observers part 1 ...

Page 12: ... trademarks registered with the United States Patent Office and in principal countries throughout the world Copyright 2003 Meade Instruments Corporation All Rights Reserved This document was created soley for the purpose of off line viewing of the instruction manual for the Meade MagellanII DSC ...

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