User manual MEADE RCX400

[. . . ] Instruction Manual 10", 12", 14", 16" RCX400TM Advanced Ritchey-Chrétien Telescopes with AutoStar II® Hand Controller and Digital Front Focus MEADE. COM Focusing the Telescope As you look over your new RCX telescope, one of the first things you will notice is that it has no Focus Knob!Because this design is of key importance, we are presenting this information on how to focus your telescope on the inside front cover so that it is immediately accessible. The Focus Key All focusing of the RCX400 is performed digitally, using AutoStar II's Focus key (number key 4). The Focus key functions as a toggle key: Press the Focus key the first time to focus the telescope and to control the speed at which you focus. [. . . ] Press ENTER, Scroll through the options until "Site: Add" displays. Scroll through the list of countries/states. Press ENTER when the country/state you wish to add displays. Press ENTER when the city you wish to add displays. To choose a site, navigate to "Setup: Select. " Press ENTER. When the desired site displays, press ENTER. 5. To Edit a Site: In this procedure, you will enter a location that is not available in the Autostar II database by editing data of a nearby site. You will edit the location's name, latitude, longitude, and the time zone shift. You will then select the site to enable it. You will need to know the latitude and longitude of your location to perform this procedure. Using the Add option, choose a site on the list that is closest to your observing site and press ENTER so that the site is added to your observing sites list. Choosing a site already on the list (as opposed to using the "Custom" feature) makes it easier to edit, as the "Time Zone" value may not need to be changed. Scroll to "Site: Edit" and press ENTER. The name of the site you have just entered to your list displays; if it does not, scroll to the site. Using the Arrow keys, change the name of the site so that it now reads the name of your observing location. Press the Scroll Down key and "Edit: Latitude" displays. Using the Number Keys, enter the latitude of your observing site and then press ENTER. "Edit: Latitude" displays again. Press the Scroll Down key and "Edit: Longitude" displays. Using the Number Keys, enter the longitude of your observing site and then press ENTER. "Edit: Longitude" displays again. Press the Scroll Down key and "Edit: Time Zone" displays. (If the site you chose from the list in step 1 has the same Time Zone as the site you are editing, just press ENTER again to go on to the next step. ) "Time Zone" refers to the Greenwich Time Zone shift. [. . . ] Open Clusters are loose groupings of young stars, all recently formed from the same diffuse nebula. The Pleiades is an open cluster 410 light years away (Fig. Through the RCX400, numerous stars are visible. Constellations are large, imaginary patterns of stars believed by ancient civilizations to be the celestial equivalent of objects, animals, people, or gods. [. . . ]