Lx200r tips star charts – Meade Instruments LX200-R User Manual

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Looking at or near the Sun will cause irreversible damage to your eye. Do not point this tele-
scope at or near the Sun. Do not look through the telescope as it is moving.

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Magic Eye software-assisted focusing.

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Automatic and manual exposure control from .001 to 15 seconds (up to 450x
longer than web cams).

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Automatically takes multiple exposures.

The AutoStar Suite Software includes powerful tools to help you get the most from
your Meade LX200R telescope:

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Sophisticated planetarium program with over 19 million objects.

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Select objects from the planetarium display and the telescope slews to
those objects.

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Create time-lapse movies of objects, such as Jupiter

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Create your own Guided Tours.

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Advanced Image Processing Software including Unsharp Masking, Convolution
Filtering and many other features.

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Control all AutoStar functions from your PC.

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Talking Telescope software translates AutoStar text to synthesized speech
through PC speaker.

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Includes a cable to connect your LX200R model to your PC.

See the CD Rom that is included with AutoStar Suite for more information and
instruction manual.

Fig. 25: Image of M13 captured with the
Deep Sky Imager.

Fig. 26: Image of M51 captured with
the Deep Sky Imager.

LX200R TIPS

Star Charts

Even with the AutoStar II's massive 145,000 object library, star charts and
planispheres are still useful for a variety of reasons. In particular, they are a
great aid in planning a night of celestial viewing.

A wide variety of star charts are available in books, in magazines, on the inter-
net and on CD Roms. Meade offers Epoch 2000sk

™

and other star locator

software. Contact your Meade dealer or Meade's Customer Service depart-
ment for more information.

Astronomy and Sky and Telescope magazines print star charts each month
for up-to-the-minute maps of the heavens.

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