Meade's
revolutionary soflware enhancement constantly improves pointing
accuracy with every object centered and sync'ed. This simple
routine refines pointing accuracy for the entire sky with your
equipment configuration and alignment. Refined data can be saved
and reused for permanent and portable setups. Smart Mount works
with both equatorial and altazimuth configurations.
Autostar
II owners who wish to purchase the SMT upgrade will need to supply
Meade with their unique Electronic Serial Number for the telescope.
The electronic serial number can be displayed on the Autostar
II handbox screen by entering the "Setup" menu. Within
the Setup menu scroll to "Statistics", the last item
listed in Statistics is the telescope's serial number.
Meade
Autostar Suite with LPI Imager
The
LPI Imager combines the power of an electronic astronomical imager/autoguider
with the simplicity of a web cam. It is easy to operate and fun
to use, providing real-time images on a PC screen of prominent
crowd pleasers like Moon craters, planetary surface surface phenomenon,
brighter deep-space objects and interesting terrestrial detail.
The LPI is a sophisticated imager with Magic Eye software assisted
focusing, authomatic and manual exposure control, auotmatic multiple
exposures, automatic selection of best images, automatic alignment
of multiple images and astacks them into one superior image, and
also functions as an autoguider for long-exposure astro-images.
The
Autostar Suite Software includes:
- Planetarum
program with over 19 million objects
- Automatically
slews a telescope to the desired object selected on the PC screen
- Control
all Autostar text to synthesized speech through the PC speaker
- Automatic
point and click Autostar tour creations
- Remote
telescope control over the internet
- Cables
to connect your Autostar-equiped telescope to PC
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