How to Create Your Own Guided Tour With Your Meade LX90GPS Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope

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To customize a guided tour with your Meade LX90GPS Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope, you can set the device to slew to a chosen list of objects. You will find information displayed regarding those objects including the object type, constellation location, and RA and Dec coordinates.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

  • Meade LX90GPS Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope

Step1
Decide if you would like to create your tour in automatic or interactive mode.

Step2
For the command line, enter programming commands such as RA and Dec coordinates, a keyword, a description string and a title string.

Step3
Use the commands in Step 2 to write your tour. If you put the word "Auto Select" before any of the command lines, you will activate the Automatic Mode. Then, Autostar will search for and find the object.

Tips & Warnings

  • A tour is an ASCII text file. It contains directions and descriptions. Each line of the tour you create will be a description, command line or comment line.
  • You must have a PC with a text editor or word processing software.
  • You must save the tour as a text only or MS-DOS text file.
  • The objects on the tour you create will be selected from Autostar's database. Or, you can enter the RA and Dec coordinates.
  • The title must be the first keyword in the tour. You must compose the title using fifteen characters or less.

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