setting up my autostar scope ..need help?

Question

i need to restore my scope to the factory setting ... should i do the factory settings restore then train the drive ?

campbelp2002 don't answer my queation because your always wrong ..if you do i'll report you

Answer 1

The short answer to your question is "yes."

It's been years since I've used the AutoStar unit that came with an early scope I was given. Because I don't use it that often, I have to confess that I'm not intimately familiar with every detail of it, but I do remember the general stuff and the basics.

The bottom line is that because of the way the system is designed you have to train the drive before each use. At the beginning of each observing session, when you power the system up, you're going to have to tell the unit where on earth it is located and what time it is. Because most AutoStar users don't have really "good" ways of getting those two pieces of information (OK, maybe that's too gross of a generalization) nor of communicating it to the unit (except for the key pad), there's going to slight inaccuracies in both pieces of data. "Training" the unit is simply a way of smoothing out those inaccuracies.

Think about the way this works. You tell the unit where you're at and what time it is. You then start the training sequence:

1. The scope slews to point at a known star.
2. You then manually put the star in the center of the field and tell the scope the "learn" the position. The unit then adjusts for the "error" that it made based on your original input.
3. Repeat 1 and 2 a couple of times to refine the correction.

There's a couple of caveats to this that have to do with leaving the scope stationary and leaving the AutoStar unit on all the time. In this case, re-training is theoretically not necessary before each use (though I'm sure there time errors introduced by the simple clock in the thing, and eventually that error would become large enough to require re-training.) But even in this case, if you reset the unit, you'd loose whatever training you'd already given it and would have to re-do it.

Answer 2

properly, some human beings would honestly question despite if i know what i'm conversing approximately, yet: The continual rule in amateur astronomy is that aperture rules. while you're certainly limited to those 3 possibilities, then the 6 inch will supply you greater useful perspectives than the different 2. "value for the money" is honestly in accordance with what you go with to ascertain and how user-friendly you go with it to be. the folk who value those issues do it in accordance with what the value is, no longer on how lots glass is interior the scope. So the value exceedingly lots is the value. You get what you pay for. If I have been you, i'd ascertain how lots I would desire to spend - max - and then bypass and discover the terrific new (no longer used) scope i'd desire to at that value. you will desire to weigh your recommendations and the factors which you have conventional. some visits to a community astronomy club staring at consultation would help you very lots including your determination. there are a number of human beings there who know what they're conversing approximately! and that they are going to be chuffed to allow you spot what you're entering into. terrific of success. Take it slow. understand why you go with the scope you're procuring earlier you purchase it.

Answer 3

Hi. Does this help? http://www.meade.com/support/auto/autostar.pdf

Answer 4

whichever u prefer