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Slewing to an Object

Once the desi
red object is displayed on the hand control screen, choose from the following options:
•
Press th
e INFO Key. This will give you useful information about the selected object such as
R.A. and declination, magnitude size and text information for many of the most popular objects.
•
Press the ENTER Key. This will automatically slew the telescope to the coordinates of t
object.
C
aution: Never slew the telescope when someone is looking into the eyepiece. The telescope can move at fast slew
speeds and may hit an observer in the eye.
O
bject information can be obtained without having to do a star alignment. After the telescope is powered on,
p
ressing any of the catalog keys allows you to scroll through object lists or enter catalog numbers and view the
information about the
object as described above.

Finding Planets

Your telescope can
locate all 8 of our solar systems planets plus the Moon. However, the hand control will
o
nly display the solar system objects that are above the horizon (or within its filter limits). To locate the planets,
press th
e PLANET k
ey on the hand control. The hand control will display all solar system objects that are
above the horizon
:
•
Use the Up and Down keys to select the planet that you wish to observe.
•
Press INFO to access information on the displayed planet.
•
Press ENTER to slew to the displayed planet.

Tour Mode

The CGE Series telescopes include a tour feature which automatically allows the user to choose from a list of
interesting objects based on the date and time in which you are o
th
ose objects that are within your set filter limits (see Filter Limits in the Setup Procedures section of the
manual)
. To activate the Tour mode, press the TOUR key (6) on the hand control. T
display t
he est objects to observe that are currently in the sky.
b
•
To see information and data about the displayed
•
To slew to t
•
To see the n

Constellation Tour

In addition to the Tour Mode, your telescope has a Constellation Tour that allows the user to take a tour of all
the best objects in each of the 88 constellations. Selecting Constellation from the LIST menu will display all
th
e constellatio
n names that are above the user defined horizon (filter limits). Once a constellation is selected,
you ca cho se from any of the database object catalogs to produce a list of all the availabl
n
o
constellation
.
•
To see information and data about the displaye
•
To slew to the object displayed, press ENTER.
•
To see the next tour object, press the Up key.
he object displayed, press ENTER.
ext tour object, press the Up key.
bserving. The automatic tour will display only
object, press the INFO key.
d object, press the INFO key.
he
he hand control will
e objects in that