Sky-Watcher SynScan V3 Hand Controller - Manual (Page 26)

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PART VI : CONFIGURE THE TELESCOPE MOUNT
6.4 Enable/Disable Auxiliary Encoder
6.5 Setting Autoguider Speed
• The screen will display “ Set Alt Limits: ” in the top row, and “ Upper=+XXX. X o ” at the bot-
tom row. Use the Left/Right keys to move the cursor and use the numeric keys to fill the
upper limits. The leading sign can be changed with the scroll keys. Press the ENTER
key to end the input and proceed.
• The screen will display “ Lower=+XXX. X o ” at the bottom row, fill in the data in a similar
way.
Some Sky-Watcher’s mounts are equipped with auxiliary encoders on their primary axes to
support manually rotating the axes without worrying about losing the mount’s alignment sta-
tus. Users may turn off the auxiliary encoder to obtain the best pointing accuracy. The auxiliary
encoder can be turned on again at any time for manually moving the mount.
1. Access the menu “ SETUP\Aux. Encoder ” and press the ENTER key.
2. Use the scroll keys to select between “ Enable ” or “ Disable ” and press the ENTER key.
Note: After re-enabling the auxiliary encoders, it is recommended to use the direction keys to
move both axes for a little bit before asking the hand control to locate an object.
For an equatorial mount with an autoguider port, the SynScan hand control can change the
guiding speed of the mount.
1. Access the menu “ SETUP \ Auto Guide Speed> ” and press the ENTER key.
2. Use the scroll keys to choose one of the following guiding speeds list: 0.125X, 0.25X,
0.5X, 0.75X, 1X , and then press the ENTER key.
The following are the steps to set the altitude slewing limits:
1. Access the menu “ SETUP\Elev. Limits ”, and press the ENTER key.
2. Use the scroll keys to choose options “ Enable ” or “ Disable ”, and then press the ENTER key
to confirm.
3. If “ Disable ” is chosen, the SynScan hand control will turn off the altitude limit.
4. If “ Enable ” is chosen, the SynScan hand control will turn on the altitude limit, and users can
input the upper and lower limits as the following:
On an equitorial mount, SynScan hand control automatically decides whether to perform a
meridian flipping at the begining of a GOTO, to prevent telescope bumping on the tripod. In
some occasion, astrotographers can choose whether to do a meridian flip or not.
Access to menu “
Setup\Flipping Mode\ “,
• Scroll to “ Auto Flipping“ and press ENTER key to let the hand control decide automatically.
• Scroll to “ Force Flipping“ and press ENTER key to force the mount to perform a meridian
flipping for the next GOTO ONLY.
• Scroll to “ No Flipping“ and press ENTER key to forbit the mount to perform a meridian flip-
ping for the next GOTO ONLY.
6.6 Setting Flipping Mode