Meade LX850-ACF 10 inch User Manual - Page 48

AutoStar #S49p7eciHfiAcNatDiBoOnsX SPECIFICATIONS German Equatorial Mount Product number 37-0850-00 UPC 7 09942 60060 5 Mount body Machined from solid 6061-T6 Aircraft grade Aluminum and stainless steel Finish Anodized Aluminum and stainless steel Main gear - RA & DEC 5.8 inch under cut 225 tooth aluminum Worm gear - RA & DEC .68 inch diameter precision machined brass Counterweight shaft 1.75 inch diameter, 12 inch long threaded stainless steel Counterweights 26 lb (optional 10 lb) threaded stainless steel. Quantity: 10 inch LX 850 ACF: two (2) 26 lb 12 inch LX 850 ACF: two (2) 26 lb 14 inch LX 850 ACF: three (3) 26 lb 130mm LX 850 APO: one (1) 26 lb LX 850 Mount Only: one (1) 26 lb Counterweight shaft and cap weight 12.5 lb Drive motors DC servo motors with encoders, both axes Mechanical alignment Fine adjustment altitude and azimuth controls Tracking distance past meridian OTA mounting system 20 degrees Losmandy®-style dovetail Instrument payload capacity 90.0 lbs (40.80 kg) Latitude range 10° - 70° Tripod Giant folding adjustable height tripod with 3 inch diameter aluminum legs. Height from 29 inches to 45 inches. Mount body weight 60 lb. Tripod weight 36 lb Control panel 12v DC in, 12v DC out, Power, Focuser, Reticle, Handbox port, 1 computer connection port (RS232), 1 StarLock port, 1 Aux guide port Computer control AutoStar II GoTo system Database Over 144,000 Objects, Catalogs included: Index catalog (5,386); NGC catalog (7,840); Partial Caldwell catalog (109); Messier catalog (110); Earth orbiting satellites (26); Planets (9); Uppsala galaxy catalog (12,940); Morphological catalog of galaxies (12,939); General catalog of variable stars (29,364); SAO and Hipparcos star catalogs (42,277); Draper star catalog (21,160); Yale bright star catalog (8,977); Large Bright Quasars Survey (1,055); Named objects (4,313); Herschel catalog (400); Abell catalog of galaxy clusters (2,712); Arp catalog of irregular galaxies (635); Lunar features (1,754); Asteroids and comets (120); Constellations (88); Solar/Lunar eclipses, meteor showers (492). Computer hand control Double line, 16 character Liquid Crystal Display; 20 backlit LED buttons. GPS Yes Home sensors Both RA and DEC axes Internal clock Yes Internal cabling Yes Slew speed Tracking rates 3 degrees/second .01x to 1x, 2x, 8x, 16x, 1/4°, 1/2°, 1°, 3°. Tracking modes EQ North and EQ South Alignment procedures 2-Star Align, 1 Star Polar Align, StarLock assisted drift align, Easy Alignment and Align on Home StarLock Wide-field camera 25mm x 26mm f/1.04 optic with 1/2 inch format sensor gives field of 14.72 x 11.78 degrees. Narrow-field camera 80mm x 400mm f/5 optic with 1/2 inch format sensor gives field of 57.2 x 45.8 arcminutes (2.68 arcseconds/pixel) Permanent Periodic Error Correction Yes. Correction is retained in AutoStar's memory. High-precision pointing +/- 1 arcminute High-precision guiding +/- 1 arcsecond (with good seeing. 1-4 second correction update rate depending on star magnitude. Faintest guide star 11th mag. High-precision alignment Semi-automatic drift align procedure for ultra-precise polar alignment Weight 2.9 lbs (1.3 kg) Power supply 12v DC 5A using supplied Meade Universal Power Supply 48