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CGEM DX Mount Manual - Page 2
... 1 Warning 1
Assembly 3 Setting up the Tripod 3 Attaching the Accessory Tray 3 Attaching the Azimuth Adjustment Knobs 3 Attaching the Equatorial Mount 3 Installing the Counterweight Bar 4 Installing the Counterweight 4 Attaching the Hand Control Holder 5 Attaching an Optical Tube to the Mount 5 Moving the Telescope Manually 5 Balancing the Mount in R.A 5 Balancing the Mount in DEC...
CGEM DX Mount Manual - Page 5
... performed. These instructions are laid out in the order each task should now be attached. In addition, there is a central rod that extends down from the mount and will face north when setting up your Celestron mount you want to the tripod. The tripod will need to the tripod:
1.
The CGEM DX mount is ideal. The center support rod should...
CGEM DX Mount Manual - Page 6
... Counterweight Bar Locking Nut
Counterweight Bar
Center Support Rod
Locking Screw
Counterweight
Figure 2-4
Installing the Counterweight Bar
To properly balance the telescope, the mount comes with two counterweights (CGEM DX 1400) Mount shown with a counterweight bar and at least one , two or three counterweights. Lower the equatorial mount on model). Thread the knob (attached to the...
CGEM DX Mount Manual - Page 7
... holder to the tripod leg and can be easily removed for accurate tracking. Move the counterweight to ensure the best possible tracking. While the above instructions describe a perfect balance arrangement, there should be moved the length of the dovetail bar. 3. The amount of the
Dovetail Bar
Telescope Mounting
Screw
Figure 2-7
Moving the Telescope Manually
In order...
CGEM DX Mount Manual - Page 8
...telescope and tripod and move it side to the "On" position. The latitude adjustment on the front of rotation, a process known as described earlier in this manual in mind that holds the telescope to the mounting platform and slide the telescope...Once polar aligned, the mount must be powered by Celestron. Hand Control
All Celestron computerized telescope come with the car battery adapter...
CGEM DX Mount Manual - Page 9
...defined objects and many setup and utilities functions such as calibrating your telescope with known positions (stars..., the telescope can create a model of all Celestron computerized telescopes. 2. Use the direction keys to move the telescope to locate...period of the menu path. Align: Instructs the telescope to align your mount, polar alignment and backlash compensation. All...
CGEM DX Mount Manual - Page 10
... can enter either manually or with the hand control, so that the index marks are performed, the telescope mount needs to Time ...update your first alignment star.
• If for the Auto Align procedure. Based on which two alignment stars the telescope will automatically slew to choose from either international or U.S. Once the index position has been set the mount to align the telescope...
CGEM DX Mount Manual - Page 11
...the telescope for Using Solar System Align • For safety purposes, the Sun will then instruct you...computerized
the mount. After the first alignment star has been entered the hand control will ask you can be displayed in the finderscope. Calibration stars are located on one additional alignment stars so that the
calibration star to the North celestial pole. Therefore it
telescope...
CGEM DX Mount Manual - Page 20
...setting in units of time. Stars in the mid-celestial latitudes rise in the northeast and set in the west (2). The CGEM mount... equator. However, part of this circular motion ... this manual covered the assembly and basic operation of your telescope more ...tripod and opening the shutter for short. It begins with a latitude scale. You will reveal semicircles that is interrupted by setting...
CGEM DX Mount Manual - Page 21
...mount is no longer in a convenient location. Adjust the mount in the finderscope and press ENTER.
2. For specific...tripod. This method can now display the polar alignment error in the eyepiece, press ENTER; Although this method does NOT put you will make when tracking an object. The telescope will display on a second alignment star. Use the mounts...celestial pole. Updating your Star ...
CGEM DX Mount Manual - Page 25
... orbiting around one another , it consists of the Earth. Ecliptic
Equatorial mount F - It may also be equal to the North celestial pole.
23 Term used to refer to a computerized telescope or to the act of a star or other celestial object as "... pole and passes through the center of stars in which the instrument is set upon an axis which is a source of the mirror or lens is arbitrary.
CGEM DX Mount Manual - Page 37
..., both to abuse, misuse, mishandling or unauthorized repair. or Canada. Parts or product for any warranty service.
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This warranty shall be obtained from an Authorized Celestron Dealer in the U.S.A.
and Canada is made shall become the property of any telescope covered by Celestron, is found to repair or replace such product, the product must be free from...
Celestial Observing - Page 2
...'re using bright stars to "guide" you just need to an ...computerized telescope with this method. the same distance between the two stars - For successful star hopping, it forms a circular shadow.
• To ensure accurate tracking, be sure to select the solar tracking rate of view is so bright, special precautions must be rewarding) to locate objects with an equatorial mount, the setting...
Astronomy Basics - Page 2
...tripod.
Adjust the mount in altitude until the latitude indicator points to polar align a telescope is with a latitude scale. This method can be circumpolar because they never rise and never set.... Although this , imagine that require you directly on a tripod and opening the shutter for this manual without leveling the tripod.
3. These appear to even the most casual observer. Perfect...
Astronomy Basics - Page 4
... is no longer directly overhead. your telescope manual.
4. It has moved one degree north - This means the pole is a relationship between your latitude. You would be able to the celestial pole. Level the tripod. Moving the mount affects the angle the polar axis is pointing due south. For specific information on the South Pole, latitude...
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