Friday, May 27, 2022

Mount Calibrating Solar System Objects

Celestron Goto Mounts - Align without Stars!
Mount Calibrating Solar System Objects


Quick-Align uses all the date and time information entered at startup to align the telescope, However, instead of slewing to the alignment stars for centering and alignment, the telescope bypasses this step and simply models the sky based on the information given. This will allow you to roughly slew to the coordinates of bright objects like the Moon and planets and provides the telescope with information needed to track objects in any part of the sky (depending on accuracy of polar alignment). Quick-Align is not meant to be used to accurately locate small or faint deep-sky objects or to track objects accurately for astroimaging.

To use Quick-Align, simply select Quick Align from the alignment options and press ENTER. The telescope will automatically use the entered date/time parameters to align itself with the sky and display Alignment Successful.

By Decimal
Latitude: (+) 25.0409° N
Latitude: (+) 121.5720° E

By Degree, Minute, Second
Latitude: (+) 25° 02' 5.40" N
Longitude: (+) 121° 34' 3.59" E

Time Zone
Time zone in Xinyi District, Taipei City (GMT+8) Greenwich Mean Time
or UTC +8, Coordinated Universal Time
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SOLAR SYSTEM ALIGN WITH NESTAR 6SE
Solar System Align is designed to provide excellent tracking and GoTo performance by using solar system objects (the Sun, Moon and planets) to align the telescope with the sky. Solar System Align is a great way to align your telescope for daytime viewing and a quick way to align the telescope for basic nighttime observing.

To perform a Solar System Align
1 - Once the telescope is powered on, use the SCROLL UP and SCROLL DOWN buttons to select Solar System. Align Press ENTER

The hand control will display the last time and location information that was entered into the hand control. Press ENTER to accept the current information or press BACK to manually edit the information (see SkyAlign section on page 10 for detailed instruction on entering time/site information).

2 - The SELECT OBJECT message will appear in the top row of the display. Use the SCROLL UP and SCROLL DOWN buttons to choose a Solar System object (a planet, the Moon, etc ) to use for alignment. Press ENTER

3 - The hand control will then prompt you to use the direction arrow buttons to slew the telescope to the alignment object and carefully center it in the finderscope. Press ENTER when centered.

4 - Then, center the object in the eyepiece. Press ALIGN

Once in position, the NexStar SE will model the sky based on this information and display “Align Successful”

Celestron Nexstar 6 SE Planet Tracking