Meade Instruments LX80 - Manual (Page 47)

To check on the available amount of memory in
AudioStar.
AudioStar has a limited amount of memory. Once you
begin to store Landmarks, User Objects and other bits
of information in AudioStar, you will begin to use up
memory. This procedure allows you to check on how
much memory is still available.
1. Navigate to the “Setup: Statistics” menu option
and press ENTER.
2. “Statistics: 97.4K Char. Free” displays. This is
the amount of memory that is still available to
the user.
Identify
This procedure allows you to use AudioStar to identify
objects you have found in the night sky using the arrow
keys. If the object is not in AudioStar’s database,
AudioStar displays information about an object in its
database that is closest to the one you queried about.
Important Note: The telescope must be
successfully aligned before the Identify feature
can be used. Once aligned, it cannot be
physically moved from that location. Moving
the telescope disrupts the telescopes frame
of reference to the night sky and will prevent it
from identifying objects.
In this procedure, you will center an object you wish to
have identifi ed by AudioStar in the telescope eyepiece
and use the “Identify” menu to fi nd out information about
the object or the nearest object to it in the AudioStar
database.
1. Center the object you wish to have identifi ed in
the telescope’s eyepiece.
2. Navigate to the “Object: Identify” option and
press ENTER.
3. “Searching...” displays. When AudioStar
fi nishes calculating, the name of the closest
object displays.
4. Press a scroll key to display information about
this object. AudioStar displays some or all the
following information about the object with each
press of a scroll key:
“Landmark: Select” displays.
6. Press the Scroll Down key once. “Landmark:
Add” displays. Press ENTER.
7. “Landmark Name” displays. Using arrow
keys, enter a name for the landmark you
wish to add to the database. When fi nished,
press ENTER.
8. “Center Landmark. Press Enter” displays.
Using only the arrow keys (do not manually
move the telescope), move the telescope to
the desired landmark and center the object in
the eyepiece. Press Enter. The object is now
stored in memory.
9. “Landmark: Add” displays. If you wish to add
more landmarks, repeat steps 5 through 7.
To Select a landmark from the database:
1. Make sure the telescope is located and aligned
exactly as when the desired landmark was
entered into memory.
2. Display the “Landmark: Select” menu option.
Press ENTER.
3. Use the scroll keys to scroll through the list of
objects you have previously entered. When
the desired object displays, press ENTER to
select the object. Use the scroll keys to scroll
through location information about the object,
if desired. Press GoTo to slew the telescope to
the landmark.
4. Press MODE to exit.
To perform a Landmark Survey
This procedure allows you to perform a tour of the
objects entered in the “Object: Landmark” menu
option – note that the Landmark Survey will function
only if you have previously entered objects in the
Landmark menu.
1. Navigate to “Utilities: Landmark Survey” menu
and press ENTER.
2. “Landmark Survey: Slewing...” displays. The
telescope moves to the fi rst object on the Survey
list and displays the name of the object.
3. Press MODE to pause the Survey. Press
Enter to restart the survey at the fi rst object of
the survey.
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