Celestron CGEM II 700 Maksutov-Cassegrain Telescope CGEM II EQ Mount Manual 5l - Page 21

Hibernate - Hibernate allows the telescope to be completely powered down and still retain its alignment when turned back on. This not only saves power, but is ideal for those that have their telescope permanently mounted or leave their telescope in one location for long periods of time. To place your telescope in Hibernate mode: 1. Select Hibernate from the Utility Menu. 2. Move the telescope to a desire position and press ENTER. 3. Power off the telescope. Remember to never move your telescope manually while in Hibernate mode. Once the telescope is powered on again, the display will read Wake Up. After pressing Enter, you have the option of scrolling through the time/site information to confirm the current setting. Press ENTER to wake up the telescope. Hint: Pressing BACK at the Wake Up screen allows you to explore many of the features of the hand control without waking the telescope up from hibernate mode. To wake up the telescope after BACK has been pressed, select Hibernate from the Utility menu and press ENTER. Do not use the direction buttons to move the telescope while in hibernate mode. Sun Menu For safety purposes, the Sun will not be displayed as a database object unless it is first enabled. To enable the Sun, go to the Sun Menu and press ENTER. The Sun will now be displayed in the Planets catalog and can be used as an alignment object when using the Solar System Alignment method. To remove the Sun from displaying on the hand control, once again select the Sun Menu from the Utilities Menu and press ENTER. Set Mount Position The Set Mount Position menu can be used to maintain your alignment in cases where you wish to disengage the clutches or similar situation. For instance, you might use this feature if you needed to rebalance the mount after having completed an alignment. To set the mount position, simply slew to a bright star in the named star list and select Set Mount Position. The hand control will sync on the star by asking you to center the star in the eyepiece and pressing the Align button. Once synced on the star, you are free to manually move the mount in both axes in order to rebalance. When you are ready to slew the telescope to your next object, just remember to manually return the tube to the same bright star and carefully center it in the eyepiece. Using this tool will invalidate the PEC index. Turn On/Off GPS - If using your telescope with the optional SkySync GPS accessory, you will need to turn the GPS on the first time you use the accessory. If you want to use the telescope's database to find the coordinates of a celestial object for a future or past dates, you will need to turn the GPS off in order to manually enter a time other than the present. Turn On/Off RTC - Allows you to turn off the telescope's internal real time clock. When aligning, the telescope still receives time information from the RTC. If you want to use the hand control database to find the coordinates of a celestial object for a future or past dates, you will need to turn the RTC off in order to manually enter a time other than the present. Periodic Error Correction (PEC) - PEC is designed to improve photographic quality by reducing the amplitude of the worm gear errors and improving the tracking accuracy of the drive. This feature is for advanced astrophotography and is used when your telescope is accurately polar aligned. For more information on using PEC, refer to the section of the manual on "Astroimaging." User Objects Menu Your telescope can store up to 400 different user-defined objects in its memory. The objects can be daytime land objects or an interesting celestial object that you discover that is not included in the regular database. There are several ways to save an object to memory depending on what type of object it is: GoTo Object: To go to any of the user defined-objects stored in the database, scroll down to either "GoTo Sky Obj" or "GoTo Land Obj" and enter the number of the object you wish to select and press ENTER. The telescope will automatically retrieve and display the coordinates before slewing to the object. Save Sky Object: Your telescope stores celestial objects to its database by saving its right ascension and declination coordinates in the sky. This way the same object can be found each time the telescope is aligned. Once a desired object is centered in the eyepiece, simply scroll to the "Save Sky Obj" command and press ENTER. The display will ask you to enter a number between 1 and 200 to identify the object. Press ENTER again to save this object to the database. Save Database (Db) • Object: This feature allows you to create your own custom tour of database objects by allowing you to record the current position of the telescope and save the name of the object by selecting it from any one of the database catalogs. These objects then can be accessed by selecting GoTo Sky Object. • Enter R.A. - Dec: You can also store a specific set of coordinates for an object just by entering the R.A. and declination for that object. Scroll to the "Enter RA-DEC" command and press ENTER. The display will then ask you to enter first the R.A. and then the declination of the desired object. • Save Land Object: The telescope can also be used as a spotting scope on terrestrial objects. Fixed land objects can be stored by saving their altitude and azimuth relative to the location of the telescope at the time of observing. Since these objects are relative to the location of the ENGLISH | 21