User manual MEADE NGC SERIES TELESCOPES ADDENDUM

[. . . ] Instruction Manual NGC-Series Telescopes NG-Series Telescopes WARNING! Never use a Meade® NGCTM or NGTM Telescope to look at the Sun!Looking at or near the Sun will cause instant and irreversible damage to your eye. Eye damage is often painless, so there is no warning to the observer that damage has occurred until it is too late. Children should always have adult supervision while observing. CONTENTS Telescope and Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] Press ENTER to choose the "Event" option and move down a level. Press UP/DOWN to display the "Sunset" option in the Event menu. Press ENTER to choose the "Sunset" option and move down another level. Sunset time displays; calculations are based on the current date, time, and location. Press MODE again to return to the starting point of "Select Item: Object. " 15 Object Menu Almost all observing is performed using the Object menu category. (NOTE: Exceptions include Guided Tour and Landmark Survey. ) See GO TO SATURN, page 13, for an example of observing using the Object menu. The Object Menu includes: Solar System is a list of the eight planets (Earth is not included) in order out from the Sun, followed by the Moon, asteroids, and comets. Constellation is a list of all 88 Northern and Southern Hemisphere constellations. When this option is chosen and a constellation name displays (e. g. , "Constellations: Aquarius"), press ENTER to select the constellation. You can use UP/DOWN to display lines of information about that constellation on the second line of the display. Press ENTER when the name of a constellation is displayed to display the name of the brightest star in the constellation. Use UP/DOWN to cycle through the list of important stars in the constellation (these are generally the stars that make up the shape of the constellation), from brightest to dimmest. You may now use UP/DOWN to scroll through lines of information about the selected star, such as the star's celestial coordinates, brightness, and so forth. As the message scrolls, you can press UP or DOWN to increase or decrease the scrolling speed. If you press ENTER when information about the star displays, the displacement numbers then display, which tell you how to move the optical tube to locate the star. See GO TO SATURN, page 13, for more information about using displacement numbers to locate an object. Deep Sky is a list of objects outside our Solar System such as nebulae, star clusters, galaxies, and quasars. Star is a list of stars listed in different categories such as named, double, variable, or nearby. User Objects allows the user to create his or her own list of celestial objects that are not currently in any other list. Landmarks stores the location of terrestrial points of interest in the permanent user-created list in the control panel database. · Select: To select a Landmark already in the database, choose the "Select" option and use UP/DOWN to scroll through the list. Note that you must be aligned with other landmarks for this feature to work properly. [. . . ] Instead, he believed that Saturn had "ears. " Saturn's rings are composed of billions of ice particles ranging in size from a speck of dust to the size of a house. Titan, the largest of Saturn's 30 moons can also be seen as a bright, star-like object near the planet. Deep-Sky Objects Star charts can be used to locate constellations, individual stars and deep-sky objects. 21: Saturn has the most extensive ring structure in our Solar System. Fig. [. . . ]