Questions & Answers for: Meade stars

...up properly with easy align for north and level 0. It doesn't seem to be able to find the alignment stars properly. Is there an easier way for me to get this thing working so I can look at some ...

...the sky, how do i align the telescope when all i have is a small part of the sky and the standard stars are not in view, i have an aligment star library of about 30 stars but i dont know how to

Calibrating & Aligning the Meade 10" LX200 GPS Telescope in the Southern Hemisphere I am a recent proud owner of a brand-new Meade LX200 GPS (10") telescope. Living out here in Zambia, Southern Africa

...difficult to manually align the scope. Any help would be greatly appreciated. The alignment stars will be nearby BUT MAY NOT BE in the eyepiece-- you must center the alignment stars using the ...

...calibrate the motors and TRAIN the drives? If not do these first-- During alignment the "alignment" stars may or may NOT be visible in the eyepiece-- CENTER the star. Once you do this with two stars ...

When i initially set up my telescope how do i know that i set in the correct stars in the initial set up? They always pick the brightest stars for alignment stars. You will need to learn a few stars ...

Does the eyepiece have to be a in the slot a certain amount? Cant figure out why the stars are just little lights. I thought you were suppose to be able to view things in detail? The stars are ALWAYS ...

...scope has taken a GPS fix and knows TIME, and SITE, and you do a two star alignment your alignment stars overide any automatic alignment issues. You could turn off the GPS put in Time, Date, and

my meade LX200GPS can't track the stars? wheater the bad weather of observation points will affect the accuracy of automatic alignment? how can I improve the tracking You must Calibrate motors using ...

...problem is that when I carry out the easy (two-star) alignment on a very clear night, knowing which stars to go for, the telescope keeps moving around slowly and finally ends up in a crazy upright ...