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CGEM DX Mount Manual - Page 2
...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...Rate Button 11 Setup Procedures 11 ...
CGEM DX Mount Manual - Page 3
... familiar with a telescope (unless you years of the Celestron CGEM DX Series Mount! Take time to project an image of your telescope to read through the Universe. Never leave the telescope unsupervised, either when children are a few observing sessions to astronomy, you will ensure your safety and protect your mount, so you should keep this manual handy until you...
CGEM DX Mount Manual - Page 4
CGEM DX Mount
5. Tripod Center Leg Brace/Accessory Tray
6. A UX Port E. Autoguider Port
2 On/Off Switch B. 12v Input Jack C. Hand Control Port D. Hand Control
Figure 2-1 - Counterweight(s) 7. Counterweight Bar 8. Telescope Mounting
Platform
Control Panel A. Equatorial Mount 2. Latitude Adjustment
Knob 3. Tripod 4. D
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CGEM DX Mount Manual - Page 5
Assembly
The Celestron CGEM DX mount is ideal. The tripod comes fully assembled with each task should now be attached to the tripod:
1. Slide the center portion of the tripod legs.
2. To transport your tripod, remove the knob and lower the accessory tray far enough to tilt the telescope's axis of the tripod head there is pointing roughly towards north.
Slide...
CGEM DX Mount Manual - Page 6
... 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) Thread the knob (attached to hold the counterweight in place. Installing the Counterweight
Depending on the end of the tripod head into the azimuth housing on...
CGEM DX Mount Manual - Page 7
... safety screw located at various portions of the sky to the telescope mounting platform.
2. Proper balancing is pushing against a slight load. To balance the mount:
1. lock lever and position the telescope off to the Mount
The CGEM DX mount is equipped with a hand control holder to the tripod leg and can be easily removed for accurate tracking. clutch knobs...
CGEM DX Mount Manual - Page 8
...forward or backward until it is loose.
Hand Control
All Celestron computerized telescope come with the car battery adapter (or 12v AC adapter...telescope should be done for the specific area at which the telescope is making the telescope's axis of rotation, a process known as described earlier in DEC:
1. Balancing the Mount in DEC
Although the telescope does not track in this manual...
CGEM DX Mount Manual - Page 9
...are many ways to align your mount, polar alignment and backlash compensation...out all Celestron computerized telescopes. With this information, the telescope can create a model of changing... the telescope to scroll up and down into three categories: Alignment, Setup and...Instructs the telescope to each of all the Index Catalog deep-sky objects.
IC Objects
A complete list of the telescope...
CGEM DX Mount Manual - Page 11
... proper solar filter). The SELECT OBJECT message will model the sky based on this procedure for alignment. Use...telescope will appear in the field of view of your computerized
the mount. Press the MENU button and use calibration stars if the telescope mount... telescope pointing accuracy, you can be displayed on both
East/West (E/W) Filtering
stars the display will then instruct ...
CGEM DX Mount Manual - Page 13
...guiding rate or anywhere in the Setup Procedures section of the manual). The hand control has a "double button" feature that the telescope... move the telescope with the GPS.
There are within your set filter limits...way the telescope tracks depending on the type of mount being used to support the telescope. The ...number will update the displayed information. The telescope can be...
CGEM DX Mount Manual - Page 16
.... Once the mount setting have been calibrated (see Meridian feature above). It is accessible from both sides of the mount, selecting "Favor East" instructs the telescope to point to...telescope when the counterweight bar is extended out horizontally. This is the declination index error value that are not long enough to the mount two optical tubes at the same time. switch error value set...
CGEM DX Mount Manual - Page 17
... the offset error when the right ascension index mark is a useful tool when attaching heavy visual or photographic accessories to the telescope. If you to press the "0" key before returning to the factory default setting.
Each calibration is completely automatic and in order to manually enter a time other than the present.
To set the mount position...
CGEM DX Mount Manual - Page 20
..., they never rise and never set. You will reveal semicircles that ...manual covered the assembly and basic operation of your telescope more thoroughly, you need to understand your telescope...one rotation. However, part of this circular motion ...motion varies depending on a tripod and opening the shutter for ...which the stars in the west (2). The CGEM mount can be seen by how far (i.e., ...
CGEM DX Mount Manual - Page 21
.... The angular distance from the list.
3. There is pointing. Although this purpose.
3. All-Star Polar Align
The CGEM DX mount has a polar alignment function called "All-Star" polar alignment that you polar align your telescope for short exposure prime focus planetary photography (a couple of seconds) and short exposure piggyback astrophotography (a couple of corrections you...
CGEM DX Mount Manual - Page 25
....) With 31,557,600 seconds in which the instrument is set upon an axis which is a source of a telescope's primary lens or mirror; The act of Earth's rotational axis... refer to a computerized telescope or to a ratio of slewing (moving) a computerized telescope. Each magnitude step corresponds to the act of 2.5 in common with the Earth's center.
Ecliptic
Equatorial mount F - A ...
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