3.2 Introduction to hand controller
L
ight Indicator: Indicates high or low sidereal tracking rate of the mount. High rate when the light
is on.
Directional Control Joystick: The joystick can be used to slew the two axes. Press down the
joystick knob to switch between high and low slew speed. There are 1, 2, 4 and 8 x sidereal rate at
low speed, 20 to 1440 x sidereal rate at high speed.
Tracking button: Click to enable or disable tracking. When the tracking is on, the indicator will
flash red or green.
Cancel button: Long press for 3 seconds to cancel the current function.
Mode switching: When AM3 is powered off, long press the cancel button until you get the AM3
mount powered and the light indicator switches the color. The mount will be successfully
switched to another mode then.
H
ow to identify the Altazimuth/ Equatorial mode and switch to a different mode?
The default setting of AM3 is Equatorial mode. During the first 5 seconds after the mount boots
up:
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