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Instruction Manual
Observing Satellites
In this procedure, you will prepare your telescope to observe a satellite pass.
1. Navigate to the „Object: Satellite“ menu option and press ENTER.
2. Use the Scroll keys to scroll through the list of satellites.
3. Select a satellite from the list and press ENTER.
4. „Calculating....“ and then „Tracking...“ displays. If the satellite is going to
make a pass, „Located“ displays.
5. Use the Scroll keys to display data about the pass: aos – acquisition of
signal and los – loss of signal. If you subtract the aos from the los, you can
calculate how long the satellite will be visible. Location information also
displays.
6. „Alarm“ displays after the location information. Press ENTER and the hand-
box automatically sets the alarm to sound a minute before the satellite‘s
scheduled appearance. You may return to regular observations until the
alarm goes off.
7. When the alarm goes off, return to the Satellite menu and press a Scroll key
until the desired satellite is on the top line of the display.
8. Press GO TO. The handbox slews the telescope to where the satellite
should appear. The motor drive stops and a countdown is displayed.
Note: If the scheduled appearance position of the satellite is
obstructed (i.e., by a building, tree, or hill), press ENTER and the
handbox starts to move the telescope along the expected satellite
track. When the track clears the obstruction, press ENTER again to
pause the telescope, then continue with this procedure.
9. With about 20 seconds left on the countdown timer, start watching through
the telescope viewfinder for the satellite to enter the field of view.
10. When the satellite enters the viewfinder field of view, press ENTER. The
telescope starts to track with the satellite.
11. Use the handbox Arrow keys to center the object in the viewfinder, then look
through the eyepiece to view the object.
Satellite orbits change and new satellites (including the Space Shuttle) are
launched. If orbital parameters are more than one month old, the satellite pass
may not happen at the time predicted by the handbox. Information about oribital
elements is provided e.g. at www.heavens-above.com
Note: Satellite observing is an exciting challenge. Most satellites are
in low orbit, travelling at approximately 17,500 mph. When visible,
they move quickly across the sky and are only in the field of view for
a few minutes, requiring the handbox to slew the telescope rapidly.
Best viewing is near Sunrise or Sunset when the sky is still dark.
Viewing in the middle of the night can be problematic because the
satellite may pass overhead, but not be visible as it is in the Earth‘s
shadow.
Landmarks
This menu option allows you to define and store terrestrial objects in the
Landmark database. First, a landmark needs to be stored in memory using
the „Landmark: Add“ option. To view a landmark, use the „Landmark: Select“
option. Landmarks may also be viewed using the „Landmark Survey“ option in
the Utilities menu.
To Add a landmark to the database:
In this procedure, you will store the location of terrestrial landmarks in hand-
box‘s memory.
1. Note for future reference where the telescope is located. Select an easily rec-
ognizable reference object and center the object in the telescope eyepiece.
Each time you wish to view landmarks you have added to the database, setup
the telescope in this location and center the reference object in the eyepiece.
If you do not use a consistent point of reference, the telescope will not be able
to locate the objects you have added to the database.
Another setup method is to select an object from the Landmark database.
See
TO SELECT A LANDMARK FROM THE DATABASE below. Then manually
Tip:
To use the Landmark func-
tion, the telescope must be
located and aligned exactly
as when the landmark(s)
was added to the database.
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