Using A Wedge With Eq North/Eq South Alignment - Celestron NexStar SE Serie Manuel D'instructions

USING A WEDGE WITH EQ NORTH/EQ SOUTH ALIGNMENT

EQ North and EQ South Alignments allow you to polar align the telescope when using an optional equatorial wedge Like the
altazimuth alignments described earlier, the equatorial alignments give you the choice of performing an AutoAlign, Two-Star
Align, One-Star Align, or Solar System Align For help in polar aligning your NexStar SE, see the Polar Align section later in
this manual (page 17)
EQ AUTO ALIGN
The EQ AutoAlign uses all the same time/site information as the alt-az alignments However, it also requires you to position
the tube so that the altitude index markers are aligned (see figure 10), and then rotate the telescope base until the tube
is pointed towards the meridian (see figure 11) Based on this information, the NexStar SE will automatically slew to two
selected alignment stars to be centered and aligned To use EQ AutoAlign:
1 Once the telescope is powered on, use the SCROLL UP and SCROLL DOWN buttons to select EQ North or EQ South
Align Press ENTER
2 The hand control will display the last time and location information that was en-
tered into the hand control Press ENTER to accept the current information or
press BACK to manually edit the information (see SkyAlign section on page
10 for detailed instruction on entering time/site information)
3 The hand control screen will display Set Alt to Index Use the up and down
arrow buttons to move the telescope tube upwards until the altitude index
markers are aligned The altitude index markers are located at the top of the
fork arm (see figure 10)
4 Next, the hand control screen will display Find Meridian Use the left and right arrow buttons to move the telescope base
until the optical tube is pointing towards the meridian
5 Based on this information, the hand controller will automatically display the most suitable alignment stars that are above
the horizon Press ENTER to automatically slew the telescope to the displayed star If, for some reason, you do not wish
to select one of these stars (perhaps it is behind a tree or building), you can either:
• Press the BACK button to display the next most suitable star for alignment
• Use the SCROLL UP and SCROLL DOWN buttons to manually select any star you wish from the entire list of
available stars
6 The hand control will then prompt you to use the direction arrow buttons to slew the telescope to the alignment object
Carefully center it in the finderscope and press ENTER
7 Center the object in the eyepiece and press ALIGN
8 The telescope will automatically slew to a second alignment star Repeat steps 7 and 8 to complete the alignment
Altitude Index Markers
Fig. 10
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