Meade Instruments 20 MAX-ACF - Manual (Page 11)

Fig. 2: The Autostar II Handbox.
Tour the Cosmos with Just the Push of a Button
Control of MAX-ACF telescope is through the operation of the standard Autostar II
system. Nearly all functions of the telescope are accomplished with just a few push-
es of Autostar II’s buttons.
Because the Autostar II system uses flash (rewritable) memory, your system will be
able to grow when new features and enhancements become available. Download the
latest satellite data, star and object catalogs, tours, serial commands list, and software
revisions, directly from the Meade website (www.meade.com).
Some of the major features of the Autostar II system are:
ܖ Automatically move the telescope to any of the more than 180,000 objects stored
in the object library, including:
Library # of Objects
New General Catalog (NGC): 7,840
Index Catalog (IC): 5,386
Messier Catalog (M): 110
Caldwell Catalog: 109
Named Objects: 227
Herschel Catalog: 400
Abell Catalog of Galaxy Clusters: 2,712
Arp Catalog of Irregular Galaxies: 645
Uppsala Galaxy Catalog: 12,940
Morphological Catalog of Galaxies: 12,939
General Catalog of Variable Stars: 28,484
SAO: 17,191
Hipparcos Star Catalog: 17,325
....plus more than 10,000 other objects from the Lunar 100, the Washington Star,
Gliese, Hickson, PK, Landolt, Lunar Features, and other catalogs!
AUTOSTAR II FEATURES
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Looking at or near the Sun will cause irreversible damage to your eye. Do not point this telescope at or near the
Sun. Do not look through the telescope as it is moving.