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Meade LX200 Instruction Manuals
7" Maksutov-Cassegrain Telescope 8", 10", and 12" Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescopes
APPENDIX C: LX200 ALIGNMENT STAR LIBRARY AND STAR CHARTS:
IMPORTANT NOTICE! Never
use a telescope or spotting
scope to look at the Sun!
Observing the Sun, even for
the shortest fraction of a
second, will cause irreversible damage
to your eye as well as physical damage
to the telescope or spotting scope itself.
[
toc ] 1. Alignment Stars
The LX200 utilizes 33 bright and well known stars to calibrate the
telescope's Object Library in the ALTAZ and POLAR alignments.
These stars were selected to allow observers from anywhere in the
world on any given night, to be able to easily and quickly make
precision alignments. The LX200 Alignment Star Library and Star Charts are below for your reference:
[ toc ] Table 9: LX200 Alignment Star Library
LX200 ALIGNMENT STAR LIBRARY
STAR NAME STAR# MAGNITUDE CONSTELL R/A DEC.
ACHERNAR 13 0.5 ERIDANUS 01 37.7 -57 14
ACRUXA 121 1.3 CRUX 12 26.6 -63 06
ALBIREO 223 3.1 CYGNUS 19 30.8 +27 58
ALKAID 140 1.9 URSA MAJOR 13 47.6 +49 19
ALDEBARAN 33 0.9 TAURUS 04 35.9 +16 31
ALNILAM 50 1.7 ORION 05 36.2 -01 12
ALPHARD 95 2 HYDRA 09 27.6 -08 39
ALPHEKKA 165 2.2 CORONABOR. 15 35.5 +26 43
ALTAIR 226 0.8 AQUILA 19 50.8 +08 52
ANTARES 177 0.9 SCORPIUS 16 29.5 -26 26
ARCTURUS 147 0 BOOTES 14 15.7 +19 11
BETELGUESE 56 0.4 ORION 05 55.2 +07 25
BOGARDUS 58 2.6 AURIGA 05 59.8 +37 13
CANOPUS 63 -0.7 CARINA 06 24.0 -52 42
CAPELLA 42 0.1 AURIGA 05 16.6 +46 00
CASTOR A 78 1.9 GEMINI 07 34.6 +31 53
DENEB 232 1.3 CYGNUS 20 41.5 +45 17
