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Looking Up a Messier Object
BUTTON or ACTION NOTES DISPLAY
Turn on the telescope
and scroll to
MENU CATALOG
MENU
C
ATALOG
press ENTER Entered into the CATALOG menu. The “S” is blinking so
we can press ENTER or UP/DOWN
NAMED
S
TAR
press UP 4 times Scrolled to the Messier catalog. Let’s look at M42. The
“M” is blinking
M
001
press ENTER Enter into the Messier catalog. The leading “0” is blinking.
We want M 042 so press enter to except the leading zero.
M
0
01
press ENTER Now the second zero is blinking indicating that it can be
edited by using the UP/DOWN Buttons. M 0
0
1
press UP 4 times Adjusted the second number to 4.
M 0
4
1
press ENTER Accepted the value “4” and now we are able to adjust the
last digit via the UP/DOWN buttons
M 04
1
press UP Change “1” to “2”.
M 04
2
press ENTER Gives the position of M42 0535-055
M 04
2
press ENTER The display reads GO TO with the “G” blinking and scrolls
information about the object. When the scrolling is
complete, the screen returns to the previous screen.
(Note: if you hit enter while the display is scrolling, the
telescope will slew to the object.) Don’t do this now
because the telescope is not aligned.
G
O TO
(scrolls object
info.)
press MENU Returned to the main menu. MENU
C
ATALOG
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