Paramount User Guide
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From
TheSkyX Professional Edition
, expand
Reference Lines and Photos
in the
Chart Elements
window
and turn on the
Meridian
checkbox.
Figure 6:
TheSkyX Professional Edition
with the meridian reference line turned on.
The arcing line in Figure 6 represents the local celestial meridian. When the Paramount is at the home
position, the telescope must be pointing to the west side of the meridian, near hour angle 2 and
declination 0 in the northern hemisphere. (Or, hour angle –2.0 and declination 0 in the southern
hemisphere).
If the optical tube assembly is not pointing to the home position, or if the telescope cross hairs in the
TheSkyX Professional Edition
indicate that the home position is anywhere else (by more than a few
arcminutes or so), then one or more is the case:
TheSkyX Professional Edition
is not configured correctly for your location.
The Versa-Plate is mounted in the wide configuration (page 65).
The Versa-Plate is mounted 180 degrees off.
Before continuing, make sure that
TheSkyX Professional Edition’s
location, date, time, time zone, and
Daylight Saving Option are correct. Also make sure the Versa-Plate is mounted in the correct orientation
before proceeding.
Maintaining Accurate Time
The Paramount can provide very accurate all sky pointing during a single session without an accurate time
base (that is, if the computer’s clock is accurate to one or two minutes or so). However,
TheSkyX
Professional Edition
must make decisions on how to slew to various positions in the sky based on the local
time. For example, an object that is on the east of the meridian may require the telescope be slewed to
west side of the pier and vice versa. So, maintaining accurate time is important.
