Paramount MX User Guide
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Limit Current Set To Hour Angle
This text box shows the hour angle of the software slew limit for the selected axis.
Hours Beyond Meridian
Manually enter the “hour angle hours” for the software slew limit and then click the
Set To This Value
button to permanently save this setting to the control system’s firmware.
Set to Current Position
Click this button to use the mount’s current position to define the software slew limit.
Set To Maximum
Click this button to set the mount’s maximum hour angle slew limit.
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Paramount ME – 0.30 hours
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Paramount MX – 2.5 hours
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Custom mount using the Bisque TCS – Not defined
These limits are permanently saved to the mount’s internal memory and used each time
the mount is turned on.
The software slew limits must be reconfigured if the
command(page 84)
is issued. You may wish to write down the hour angle of the software slew limit so that it
can be restored later if necessary.
The graphic on the bottom of the
Software Slew Limits
window is intended to convey an
example
of the
orientation as German equatorial mount at the East and West meridian slew limits. This graphic is
not
intended to be “mount specific” (in other words, the graphic will be the same whether the Paramount
ME or Paramount MX mount is selected in the
TheSkyX Professional Edition’s
Telescope Setup
window).
Hand Controller Settings
The four slew rates on the Hand Controller slew rate switch can be configured from the
Hand Controller
settings on the
Utilities
tab.
