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PART III : ALIGNMENT

3.

The hand control will generate a list of the bright stars within the selected horizontal region.

The list is sorted by the brightness of the star and with the brightest stars at the top of the

list. Users can use the scroll keys to browse the list. An example of the screen display is

shown in

Fig. 3.4b.

• Only stars brighter than magnitude 1.5 will appear in the list. If there is no star brighter

than magnitude 1.5 in the selected region, the hand control will display “

No object found

in this region

.”

• If multiple bright stars appear in the list, users can identify the names of the stars in

the real sky by matching the azimuth, altitude and magnitude provided by the SynScan

hand control.

• Pick one of the star(s) (Generally the brightest one) as the 1

st

alignment star and press

ENTER

key to proceed to the next step. Press the

ESC

key to return to the previous step

(“

Select Region

”).

Fig. 3.4a

Fig. 3.4b

NORTH

EA

ST

S

K

Y

S

O

U

TH

EA

ST S

KY

SO

UTH

WE

ST

S

K

Y

N

O

R

TH

W

ES

T S

KY

NO

RTHERN SKY

E

A

S

T

E

R

N

S

K

Y

SOU

TH

ER

N S

KY

W

E

S

T

E

R

N

S

K

Y

N (0˚)

E (90˚)

S (180˚)

(225˚)

W (270˚)

(315˚)

(135˚)

(45˚)

1. Capella

NE 35.3

0.1

15.7

Magnitude
Altitude Angle

Star Name

Azimuth Angle

Orientation

Brightness Order