Audiostar handbox – Meade Instruments LX80 User Manual

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Figure 39: The AudioStar #497 Handbox

Tour the Cosmos with Just the
Push of a Button

Control of the LX80 is through the operation of the

standard-equipment AudioStar. Nearly all functions of

the telescope are accomplished with just a few pushes

of AudioStar’s buttons. Some of the major features of

AudioStar are:

• Automatically move the telescope to any of

over 30,000 objects stored in the database or

manually enter the astronomical coordinates of

any celestial object.

• Take a guided tour of the best celestial objects

to view on any given night of the year.

• Learn the secrets and details of the objects

you observe while you are viewing them with

audio through the built-in speaker. Astronomer

Inside will tell you about the planets, stars,

constellations, clusters, nebulae, galaxies and