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Date, Time, Daylight Saving Time
• When “Date: mm/dd/yyyy” is displayed, enter the current date in the indicated mm/dd/
yyyy format (i.e. 10/24/2012 for Oct.24,2012); press the ENTER key to conrm and pro-
ceed to the next step. Press the ESC key to return to the “Geographic Coordinates” step.
• When “Enter Time” is displayed, enter the current local time in 24-hour format. (i.e.
18:30:00 for 6:30pm). Press the ENTER key to display the entered time in 12-hour for-
mat. Press the ENTER key again to conrm and proceed to the next step. Press the ESC
key to return to the previous step.
• When “Daylight Saving?” is displayed, use the scroll keys to select “Yes” or “No”. “YES”
indicates the time entered in the previous step is daylight saving time, while “NO” indi-
cates the time entered is in standard time. Press the ENTER key to conrm and proceed
to the next step. Press the ESC key to return to the previous step.
PART II: INITIALIZATION
6. Display Polaris Position
This step applies to an equatorial mount only. It tells the orientation of the Polaris in the
polar-scope’s FOV of an equatorial mount.
• The LCD screen will display “Polaris Position in P.Scope = HH:MM”. When using a po-
lar-scope to do the polar alignment, user can imagine the large circle in the FOV of a
polar-scope as a clock’s face with 12:00 at the top, and put the Polaris at the “HH:MM”
position of the large circle.
• Press ENTER to conrm and proceed to the next step. Press ESC to return to the previ-
ous step.
Press “1” to start the alignment process
The SynScan hand controller will operate in Full Feature mode (refer to Section 1.4) after
the alignment.
Press “2” to skip the alignment process.
The SynScan hand controller will enter standby mode.
• Users may start the tracking functions (refer to Section 6.1), or use the GOTO function
(refer to PART V) to roughly locate celestial objects. Both operations will let the SynScan
hand controller work in the Easy Tracking mode (refer to Section 1.4 Step 2).
• Users can also start an alignment process (refer to Section 8.2) to let the SynScan
hand controller operate in Full Feature mode.
• Users may slew the mount with the direction keys to point the telescope to terrestrial
targets for observing. The “User-Dened Objects” function (refer to Section 5.8) of the
SynScan hand control is a useful tool for terrestrial observing.
This is the last step in the hand controller’s initialization process. The screen will display
“Begin Alignment? 1) YES 2) NO” to ask the user to make a choice:
7. Starting Mount Alignment