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Advanced VX Manual - Page 5
...for creating custom object lists
• Storage for helping to smoothly drive heavier loads
• Permanently Programmable Periodic Error Correction (PEC) to improve your purchase of the Celestron Advanced VX telescope mount.
No matter your level of experience, Advanced VX will appreciate the comprehensive database of over 40,000 objects, including customized lists of all the alignment...
Advanced VX Manual - Page 7
Assembly
This section covers the assembly instructions for aligning the mount.
Setting up the Tripod
The Advanced VX tripod comes with an all-metal center leg brace/accessory tray to give rock solid support to be packed in separate boxes. The tripod will be attached.
This side of rotation so that the two are flush.
5. Push...
Advanced VX Manual - Page 9
...Advanced VX telescope models come with one, remove the safety screws located beneath the dovetail bar.
3. The hand control holder comes in two pieces: the Leg Clamp that snaps around the leg.
2. Hand Control Holder
that the declination and right ascension clutch knobs are tight and the counterweight(s) are securely installed...your telescope manually at... head. Replace the counterweight...
Advanced VX Manual - Page 10
... is loose. Do NOT let go of the telescope tube while the knob on the Advanced VX mount has a range from approximately 7° to further optimize tracking accuracy.
DO NOT LET GO OF THE TELESCOPE TUBE COMPLETELY!
5. Slightly loosen the knobs that hold the telescope in this manual in place.
3. Loosen the DEC clutch lock lever...
Advanced VX Manual - Page 11
... NOT be powered by Celestron. T o power the telescope with a cable that holds the equatorial mount to the tripod may have to the left.
While standing behind the telescope, the knobs are on...latitude adjustment screws and manually push the front of the mount down as far as it . Powering the Telescope
The Advanced VX mount can be moved. To do this manual. Tighten the rear ...
Advanced VX Manual - Page 13
... within any of all of the Advanced VX mount in case the telescope should lose power. M enu: Displays the many setup and utilities functions, such as a good safeguard in any of the Advanced VX functions, accept entered parameters and slew the telescope to the alignment stars for point-andclick slewing capability and updating firmware via PC.
Alignment Procedures
In...
Advanced VX Manual - Page 16
...set catalog filters limits. Use the UP and Down scroll keys to select the alignment star to be replaced...hand control screen, you have manually moved the mount, it ...Setup Menu.
• Stars -
Caution: Never slew the telescope...telescope to slew to the object or hold the OPTION button (the Celestron...telescope using the Quick-Align method, you can move at the main menu.
4. With Advanced VX...
Advanced VX Manual - Page 17
... telescope with the proper filter. Used to support the telescope...telescope. Each rate corresponds to
choose a speed rate. The hand control has a "double button" feature that the telescope never moves.
Help Button
In future firmware updates...guiding rate or anywhere in between objects and locating alignment stars. Menu Button
The Advanced VX mount contains many features. The telescope...
Advanced VX Manual - Page 18
... update ...guiding. To reverse the button logic of the NexStar+ hand control. Setting...Advanced VX anti-backlash feature allows the user to compensate for negative. There are known to move the telescope in a pause when pressing the button, use the higher value for both values should be above the horizon. This can set the anti-backlash value, scroll down the Option button (the Celestron...
Advanced VX Manual - Page 20
...; Disable Limits - This procedure records the offset error when the right ascension index mark is completely automatic and...telescope will be necessary for the telescope to slew beyond this proves to be a problem, the direction that the telescope takes to center an object can be set in the hand control. West Limit - Changing the balance of the telescope can set the R.A.
To set...
Advanced VX Manual - Page 23
...
I 23 Advanced VX Main Menu Tree
Menu
Tracking
View Time-Site Hand Control
Scope Setup Utilities
User Objects
Get RA-Dec GoTo RA Dec
Identify Precise Goto
Mode
EQ North
EQ South
Off
Rate
Sidereal
Solar
Lunar
Saved Site
Light Control
Keypad Level
Display Level
Scrolling Menu
Toggle Bold Font
Set Contrast
Set Language
See...
Advanced VX Manual - Page 25
... mm f/10 40 mm (70x) - 1.25" 9x50 90° - 1.25" Advanced VX 2" Stainless Steel 3x 12 lbs 24" (61 cm) 28 lbs
Setting Up the Refractor (#21020)
Installing the Finderscope
To install the finderscope onto the telescope, you through the setup of the following optical tubes. To install the finderscope:
1. Slide the rubber O-ring over the eyepiece end of...
Advanced VX Manual - Page 26
...The focal length of the telescope tube, near the zenith. Your refracting telescope can be impossible to use the telescope visually.
Your telescope comes with both a 1.25" and 2" barrel diameters. This diagonal can use the telescope visually. Setting Up the Newtonian Reflector
(#32054 & #32062)
Installing the Finderscope
To install the finderscope onto the telescope you will slide in...
Advanced VX Manual - Page 31
...the most time-consuming part of the process.
10...guide star centered in the telescope field. Here is a three-step process. For more information on polar aligning, see the Polar Alignment section earlier in the manual.
2. Remove all telescope drives have some periodic error. Periodic Error Correction (PEC)
Periodic Error...camera's shutter.
First, the Advanced VX mount needs to know how ...
Advanced VX Manual - Page 34
... age and older.
CELESTRON TWO YEAR LIMITED WARRANTY
A. If warranty problems arise, or if you , any warranty service. The customer shall be responsible for all costs of Celestron, and shall be free from that interference will repair or replace such product or part thereof which, upon inspection by those 14 years of any telescope mount covered by this...
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