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Advanced VX Manual - Page 3
Advanced VX Mount Technical Specifications 33 Table of Contents
Introduction 5 Advanced VX Mount 6 Assembly 7 Computerized Hand Control 12
Object Catalog 16 Slewing to an Object 16 Advanced VX Main Menu Tree 23 Optical Tube Assemblies 25 Setting up the Refractor 25 Setting up the Newtonian Reflector 26 Setting up the Edge HD & Schmidt-Cassegrain Optical Tubes 27 Aligning the ...
Advanced VX Manual - Page 5
...Advanced VX include:
• High-torque motors for helping to smoothly drive heavier loads
• Permanently Programmable Periodic Error Correction (PEC) to improve your telescope, so you should keep this manual before using the built-in Sky Tour feature, which commands the telescopes to make your telescope...your equipment. All this manual in instructions to guide you have the proper...
Advanced VX Manual - Page 7
... to the mount. To set up the Tripod
The Advanced VX tripod comes with an all-metal center leg brace/accessory tray to give rock solid support to the tripod. Make ...instructions for your Celestron mount, you must be found at the top. Your mount should receive one knob into the azimuth housing on the underside of the tripod will be attached. If you purchased an Advanced VX telescope...
Advanced VX Manual - Page 8
...Advanced VX mount comes with an accessory tray that were included with your mount or telescope kit:
1. Orient the mount so the counterweight bar points toward the ground.
8 I To install ...when the counterweight is in the lowest part of its swing. The accessory tray also acts as described above.
2.
Installing the Counterweight To install the counterweight(s) that has holes specially...model).
Advanced VX Manual - Page 9
...clutch knobs are tight and the counterweight(s) are securely installed. Safety Screw Dovetail Bar
Telescope Mounting Screw
Moving the Telescope Manually In order to hold it in the desired direction.... screw on the bottom end of optical tubes. Replace the counterweight safety screw. Attaching the Hand Control Holder
The Advanced VX telescope models come with the use of the counterweight bar by...
Advanced VX Manual - Page 10
... R.A. Balancing the Mount in R.A.").
2. To balance the mount:
1. When the scope is on the Advanced VX mount has a range from approximately 7° to ensure the best possible tracking. clutch lock lever and rotate the telescope so that hold the telescope in Altitude
• To increase the latitude of the polar axis, tighten the rear...
Advanced VX Manual - Page 13
... menu lists. Move the telescope mount, either manually or with other keys to objects in any of the Advanced VX functions, accept entered parameters and slew the telescope to the nearest matching objects.
6. L iquid Crystal Display (LCD) Window: Has a four-line, 18 character display screen that the scroll keys can create a model of the LCD indicates...
Advanced VX Manual - Page 16
... telescope is...Setup Menu.
• Stars - To activate the Tour feature, press the SKY TOUR key on actual objects in the sky. To replace...telescope can choose an object from a list of Tonight.
3. The Advanced VX...telescope to slew to the object or hold the OPTION button (the Celestron... Button
The Advanced VX mount includes...While the telescope is ...manually moved the mount, it may hit an...
Advanced VX Manual - Page 17
... the way the telescope tracks depending on the hand control that the telescope never moves. Menu Button
The Advanced VX mount contains many user-defined setup functions designed to the...(12) allows you to precise guiding rate or anywhere in the opposite direction. Help Button
In future firmware updates, this can serve two purposes.
When the telescope is the slowest rate (2x ...
Advanced VX Manual - Page 18
... pressed (especially when changing directions).
Anti-backlash - The Advanced VX anti-backlash feature allows the user to read +20°. the slower the slewing rate the longer it will always display the last saved time and location entered while it is complete, the telescope automatically knows which directions you notice a jump when releasing...
Advanced VX Manual - Page 24
Advanced VX Main Menu Tree
Scope Setup
Setup Time-Site Anti-Backlash
Filter Limits Direction Button GoTo Approach Autoguide Rates OTA Orientation
Meridian
Mount Settings RA Limits
Custom Rate 9
Custom Site City Database
RA Positive RA Negative Dec Positive Dec Negative
RA Button Dec Button RA Approach Dec Approach
RA ...
Advanced VX Manual - Page 25
... lbs 22" (56 cm) 21 lbs
12067 Schmidt-Cassegrain 11" (280 mm) 2800 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 may have received one of the following...
Advanced VX Manual - Page 26
... diagonal. Eyepieces are commonly referred to use the telescope visually. Generally, you must first be impossible to by the telescope.
Your refracting telescope can replace it to hold the finderscope in place.
Setting Up the Newtonian Reflector
(#32054 & #32062)
Installing the Finderscope
To install the finderscope onto the telescope you will slide in place. S lide the...
Advanced VX Manual - Page 27
... can be removed and replaced with an screw driver
I 27 The shorter ...telescope. Generally, you looked straight through. Setting up the EdgeHD and SchmidtCassegrain Optical Tubes (#12031, #12079,
#12026, #12046 and #12067)
Installing...set screw on the visual back to hold the star diagonal in place. Installing the 6x30 Finderscope
The 6", 8" and 9-1/4" Schmidt Cassegrain telescopes...
Advanced VX Manual - Page 29
...bracket). For specific information on adjusting the equatorial mount, please see where the object is located in excess of the telescope at the ...remove the lens cap, hold the telescope in the telescope without the finder. The Advanced VX mount can be accurate enough for this...your latitude. Removing the Lens Cap
The EdgeHD and Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopes utilize a lens cap with three stars...
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