Meade USB to serial Adapter compatible and Meade 505 cable compatible Kit
and Guidebook CD
For Meade ETX Autostar Telescopes |
Control Your Meade telescope with #/495 or
#497 AutoStar
from your desktop, laptop or notebook computer with USB port Connection
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What is included :
USB-Serial Adapter Cable
Meade #505 compatible cable
Plus on CD
Field Guild Book for Meade ETX-Autostar
Free Planetarium and Telescope Control Software |
This cable/software set works with any
telescope with Meade #497 Autostar ( firmware version 22Et)
Meade ETX telescopes
- Meade ETX-90EC
- Meade ETX-125EC
- Meade LX-90
- Meade ETX-60AT
- Meade ETX-70AT
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Meade DS Telescope
- Meade DS-60EC
- Meade DS-70EC
- Meade DS-80EC
- Meade DS-90EC
- Meade DS-114EC
- Meade DS-127EC
- Polaris DS-60EC
- Polaris DS-114EC
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How do I know If my Autostar/Telescope works
with this cable and Software?
Will NOT work with #494 Autostar
Meade #495 Autostar has numeric key pad and can be upgraded to a #497
Autostar with this set of cable and software from
Meade. It must have the firmware version 22Et to use with Non ETX
telescopes. Firmware 22Et has the setting for DS and LX telescopes |
| The
Field Guide for ETX-Autostar |
| The Step-by-Step guide book for the ETX-Autostar
Observation System |
Are you frustrated that you ETX-Autostar
is NOT doing what you want?
Is your GOTO accurate?
Don't sell you Telescope out of frustration!This is the Step-by-step
book that guides you through all the setup, alignment to achieve precision
GOTO night after night without frustration. All the little tricks that
makes setting up, aligning and using your ETX-Autostar observing system
easy. Over 50 information packed pages with many illustration and photographs.
A collections of many hours of time and frustration saving experience. |
| This Field Guide is for owners of
all Autostar Controlled Telescopes |
Autostar controlled
Meade ETX series telescopes > |
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Autostar controlled
Meade Digital Series Telescope
Electronic Controlled |
- Meade ETX-90EC
- Meade ETX-125EC
- Meade LX-90
- Meade ETX-60AT
- Meade ETX-70AT
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- Meade DS-60EC
- Meade DS-70EC
- Meade DS-80EC
- Meade DS-90EC
- Meade DS-114EC
- Meade DS-127EC
- Polaris DS-60EC
- Polaris DS-114EC
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| The ETX-Autostar observation
system |
The ETX-Autostar observation
system consists of the ETX telescope, the Autostar and the Tripod.How
you set up these three components would determine how precise
and consistent is your observation. You need to look at the ETX
telescope, Autostar and the tripod as an integrated system.
There is no overall instruction for the beginner.
There is a manual for the telescope on how to use the telescope.
There is also the very brief manual on how to setup the
Autostar. There may be
a manual for the tripod. Each
part of the observation system (telescope, Autostar and tripod)
comes with its instruction with very little overall consideration.
It is important the system work with each other.
Worst of all, the manual assumes that the beginner user
know how the entire system should work together.
This guide book take the entire ETX-Autostar
observation system as a whole and guide you though step-by-step
process to integrate your telescope, Autostar and tripod in to
one observation system. You will achieve precise GOTO night after
night after night without frustration.
There will be no consistency without precision steps.
A small error here, a little off there, and these little
imprecision add up to big error. If setup properly, the ETX/Autostar
telescope, is amazingly precise even at such a low cost This guide
book will show you all the precision steps require for perfect
results. This field guide is designed to show all
the essentials on how to setup and align the Meade ETX/Autostar
Observation system with precision without going into a lot of
boring theory. yes"> This is a practical guide that if you follow
the instruction, you will get the desired result. |
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| This is how good you
GOTO can be: By following the instruction in this guide book,
you can expect ALL target stars will appear in the viewfinder,
better than 80% of GOTO targets will appear (not necessarily centered)
in the 26mm eyepiece of the ETX-90EC. You may not need to use
your viewfinder after followin my method. If you follow the instruction
here, you will get good GOTO consistently, night after night of
comfortable star glazing without frustration. The instructions
here will show you the step-by-step process how to achieve precision
results. |
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Total
setup and alignment time for perfect GOTO: 10 minutes!
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What is In the Guide
Book:
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| Topics |
Step-by-step
and precision instruction for: |
| The System |
The ETX-Autostar
System: the telescope, Autostar and tripod
How the system must work as a whole. |
| Telescope setup |
Precision viewfinder
alignment
Precision DEC Dial setting.
Precision telescope leveling for Polar and Alt/Az Home position.
Precision Home positions (Polar & Alt/Az) |
| Autostar |
Precision Autostar
setup
Get exact Latitude and Longitude of your address without a GPS
unit
Precision time from an atomic clock and precision to hundredth
of a second.
Fine tune Autostar with your telescope
- Correct and precision method to Train
Drive
- Eliminates drive lack time (telescope
does not move immediately after you push the button)
- Eliminates jerky telescope movements
- Eliminates and avoid motor failure
messages
Autostar problem troubleshooting
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| Tripod |
Precision Leveling
Precision setting of Latitude |
| North |
What is North?
Which North to use?
Magnetic North and Magnetic declination compensation
Geographic North
North Celestial Pole
How to find the EXACT True North Celestial Pole, precision method |
North alignment
Do you know you must align North before a Star alignment? |
How to use compass
for north alignment and magnetic declination
How to align with the Pole star.
How to align to the North Celestial Pole precisely for perfect
GOTO and tracking
Align only once for permanent type telescope pier or stand. |
| Star Alignment |
Star alignment
Overview and Essentials
Pre-alignment check list
Precision star alignment method
Star Alignment troubleshooting |
| Eyepieces |
Eyepiece focal
length, magnification, field of view reference table |
| Computer Controlled
Astronomy |
GOTO from the
Computer Screen
Control the telescope from your compute, point the telescope to
a star with your mouse. |
| Computer Software
to control your telescope. |
Learn Astronomy the easy way.
What can be easier than looking at the computer screen and compare
the screen with the sky. Point and Click the telescope to the
star of you choice right on the computer screen. Want to see
all the stars of a constellation? Just point and click on each
star of the constellation from you computer screen. There is
no need to find them yourself in the sky.
Hold down the left mouse button and drag,
the sky rotates with your mouse movement! Your browse the entire
sky with you mouse.
Spin the mouse wheel and you zoom in
on the target.
Tips on setting up your Autostar.
Find the EXACT longitude and latitude of your location.
Connect and test the connection of you telescope with the Autostar.
Quick setup of the planetarium/telescope control software.
A simplified user manual/quick tip for immediate use of the
telescope control software.
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| Planetarium
and Telescope control Software (Included) |
| Yes, point your mouse
on the computer screen and control the telescope. Point to a Planet,
a star, a galaxy... on your computer screen and command the telescope
to point to wherever you have selected. This is a cable set and software
combo that allows you to control your Meade telescope with Meade 497
Autostar from your computer. The software sends commands to the Meade
#495 or #497Autostar to control the telescope. |
| It is very simple
and fun, these are the steps: |
- Install the planetarium software in your
computer.
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- Configure the software similar to the way
you configure the Autostar by entering the location (Longitude and
Latitude) and time zone. The instruction to find you EXACT Longitude
and Latitude of you address is included also. Yes, that is it. You
can custom configure the software if you want but you can use it
with just this simple setup.
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- Connect the Autostar to you computer with
the cable set, a notebook computer if you want to be really portable
outdoor.
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- You align you telescope the same way using
the Autostar.
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- Activate the connection between the telescope
and computer and you are ready to have fun.
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Point, Click and make
the Telescope Points
You simple select any object (star, planet, constellation) on the computer
screen, click a button , and the telescope start "slewing" (telescope
movement is call slewing). The telescope then point to the selected
object and stop.
You wonder where the star, planet or constellation is in the sky? You
can use the Find function to find and point your telescope. You may
type in the name of the object or select from the drop down menu if
you don't even know the correct spelling.  |
| NO MORE DOWNLOADING!
SOFTWARE and GUIDEBOOK NOW ON CD |
You are purchasing
one Meade #505 compatible cable, one USB to Serial adapter cable
and the Field Guidebook for ETX-Autostar in Acrobat PDF format on CD
only. NO printed material is sold. The software are available on CD
to you at no charge, FREE, with the purchase of the cable sets and the
Guidebook. This planetarium and telescope control software is a freeware.
This a full version, un-crippled freeware with no trial or expiration
period. NO upgrade is needed. The author Franck RICHARD welcomes donation
as you wish. However a donation is neither required or demanded to use
this software. The seller has written permission from the author Franck
RICHARD to copy and distribute this freeware. The instruction included
gives you all the information needed to install, setup and quick start
instruction for the software. The seller reserve all copyright to the
ETX-Autostar Field Guidebook. Buyer is not allow to re-sell or transfer
the ETX-Autostar Field Guidebook for any reason. The cable set include
a custom configured DB-9 to RJ-11 adapter and cable. The color of the
adapter and cable delivered may be different from the photo.
Disclaimer
The name "Meade", "Meade logo", "ETX",
"Autostar" are trademarks of Meade Instrument Corporation.
Seller has no association with Meade Instrument Corporation. This
product is neither sponsored nor authorized by Meade Instrument Corporation.
Reference herein to any specific commercial products, process, or service
by trade name, trade mark, manufacturer or otherwise, is not an endorsement
or recommendation. |
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