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Sky-Watcher SynScan V3 Hand Controller User Manual

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Date, Time, Daylight Saving Time
• When “

Date: mm/dd/yyyy

” is displayed, enter the current date in the indicated

mm/dd/

yyyy

format (i.e.

10/24/2012

for Oct.24,2012); press the

ENTER

key to confirm and pro-

ceed to the next step. Press the

ESC

key to return to the “

Geographic Coordinates

” step.

• When “

Enter Time

” is displayed, enter the current local time in 24-hour format. (i.e.

18:30:00

for 6:30pm). Press the

ENTER

key to display the entered time in 12-hour for-

mat. Press the

ENTER

key again to confirm and proceed to the next step. Press the

ESC

key to return to the previous step.

• When “

Daylight Saving?

” is displayed, use the scroll keys to select “

Yes

” or “

No

”. “

YES

indicates the time entered in the previous step is daylight saving time, while “

NO

” indi-

cates the time entered is in standard time. Press the

ENTER

key to confirm and proceed

to the next step. Press the

ESC

key to return to the previous step.

PART II: INITIALIZATION

6.

Display Polaris Position

This step applies to an equatorial mount only.
• The LCD screen will display “

Polaris Position in P.Scope = HH:MM

”. It tells the orienta-

tion of Polaris in the polar-scope’s FOV. User can imagine the large circle in the FOV

of a polar-scope as a clock’s face with 12:00 at the top, and put Polaris at the “HH:MM”

position of the large circle when using a polar-scope to do the polar alignment. Press

ENTER

key to confirm and proceed to the next step. Press

ESC

key to return to the pre-

vious step.

• The LCD screen will display “Hour Angle of Polaris = HH:MM“. Press ENTER key to

confirm and proceed to the next step. Press ESC key to return to the previous step.

Elevation (

for atmospheric refraction compensation

)

The LCD screen will display “

Set Elevation:” in the first line, and display the elevation in

meters in the second line.

• Use the scroll keys to change the leading “

+

” or “

-

” sign when the cursor is on it.

• Press the numeric keys at the cursor position to fill the number of elevation in meters.
• Press the

ENTER

key to confirm the input and proceed to the next step.

• Press the

ESC

key to return to the previous step.

This is the last step in the hand control’s initialization process. The screen will display

Begin Alignment? 1) YES 2) NO

” to ask the user to make a choice:

7.

Starting Mount Alignment

Press “

1

” to start the alignment process

The SynScan hand control will operate in Full Feature mode

(refer to Section 1.4)

after the

alignment.