Sky-Watcher Star Discovery - Manual (Page 24)

Part V: Astronomy with the SynScan Version 4
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The User Defined Objects menu (up to 25 objects can be defined)
Defining New Objects:

Press the ( USER/9 ) shortcut key. The screen will display “USER
OBJECT”. Press the scroll keys until “New Object” is displayed on
the screen, then press the (
ENTER ) key.
 The screen displays “New Object 1)RA-Dec 2)Mount”. Press “1” to
enter R.A./Dec.
coordinates for a celestial object; press “2” to enter
coordinates for a land object.
 If the “R.A.-Dec.” coordinates is chosen, the screen displays the
coordinates to which the telescope is pointing to. If the “Mount”
coordinates is chosen, the screen will display the coordinates of the
mount’s two axes. The first number is the coordinates of the
azimuth axis, while the second number is the coordinates of the
altitude axis.

Use the left and right direction keys to move the cursor and the
numeric keys to edit the coordinates. The scroll keys can be used
to change the sign of the declination coordinates or the altitude
coordinates. Press the (
ENTER ) key after editing.
The screen will display “Save?”

Press the ( ENTER ) key again to start saving the coordinates.
Users should use the scroll keys to select a storage space index
number between 1 and 25 and press the (
ENTER ) key to save the
new coordinates.

Press the ( ESC ) key to proceed to the next step without saving the
coordinates.
The screen will now display “View Object?”

Press ( ENTER ) to slew the mount towards the coordinates entered.

Press ( ESC ) to exit without moving the mount.
Recalling Objects:

Press the ( USER/9 )
shortcut key. The screen will display “USER
OBJECTS / Recall Object”.

Press the ( ENTER ) key.

Use the scroll keys to browse through a pre-defined objects list
which is indexed from 1 to 25, and then press ( ENTER ).
If the selected object has not been defined before, the SynScan hand
control will stay at this step for the choosing of another object; otherwise, it
will proceed to the next step.
The screen will display the coordinates of the selected object.

Press the ( ENTER ) key again to proceed.
The screen will now display “View Object?”

Press ( ENTER ) to have the mount start slewing towards the
selected object. If the object is a celestial object, the mount will
start tracking the object automatically after it finishes slewing.

Press ( ESC ) to exit.