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Use the Up and Down scroll keys to choose between City Database and Custom Site. City Database will

allow you to select the closest city to your observing site from a list of either international or U.S. location.

Custom Site allows you to enter the exact longitude and latitude of your observing site. Select City Database

and press ENTER.

The hand control will allow you to choose from either U.S. or international locations. For a listing of U.S.

locations by state and then by city, press ENTER while United States is displayed. For international

locations, use the Up or Down scroll key to select International and press ENTER.

Use the Up and Down Scroll buttons to choose your current state (or country if International locations was

selected) from the alphabetical listing and press ENTER.

Use the Up and Down Scroll buttons to choose the closest city to your location from the displayed list and

press ENTER.

Enter the current time for your area. You can enter either the local time (i.e. 8:00), or you can enter

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military time (i.e. 20:00).

Select PM or AM. If military time was entered, the hand control will bypass this step.

Choose between Standard time or Daylight Savings time. Use the Up and Down scroll buttons (10) to toggle

between options.

Select the time zone that you are observing from. Again, use the Up and Down buttons (10) to scroll through

the choices. For time zone information, refer to the Time Zone map in the appendix of this manual.

Helpful

Hints

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If the wrong information has been input into the hand control, the UNDO button will act as a backspace

allowing the user to re-enter information.

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The next time that your NexStar is aligned, the hand control will automatically display the last location

(either a city or longitude/latitude) that was entered. Press ENTER to accept these parameters if they still

apply.

longitude/latitude.

Use the arrow buttons on the hand control to slew (move) the telescope towards any bright celestial object in

the sky. Align the object with the red dot of the finderscope and press ENTER.

If the finderscope has been properly aligned with the telescope tube, the alignment star should now be visible

inside the field of view of the eyepiece. The hand control will ask that you center the bright alignment star in

the center of the eyepiece and press the ALIGN button. This will accept the star as the first alignment

position. (There is no need to adjust the slewing rate of the motors after each alignment step. The NexStar

automatically selects the best slewing rate for aligning objects in both the finderscope and the eyepiece).

For the second alignment object, choose a bright star or planet as far as possible from the first alignment

object. Once again use the arrow button to center the object in the finderscope and press ENTER. Then once

centered in the eyepiece press the ALIGN button.

Repeat the process for the third alignment star. When the telescope has been aligned to the final stars, the

display will read "Match Confirmed".

you aligned to, or press ENTER to accept these three objects for alignment. You are now ready to find your

first object.

you know the exact longitude and latitude of your observing site, it can be entered directly into the

hand control and remembered for future use as well. To choose a location city:

Enter the month, day and year of your observing session. The display will read: mm/dd/yy.

Pressing the UNDO button will allow you to go back and select a new city location or

Press UNDO to display the names of the three bright objects