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How to access your telescope settings
Your telescope settings can be accessed from the homepage or through the Settings menu .
From the Homepage, if your telescope is connected to the app, tap on the telescope settings button
to access its settings directly.
Or tap on the settings button
(in the top right corner) on any main pages of the app (Homepage, Catalog, Science, or Gallery) to access the settings menu. Then select “My telescope” to access your telescope settings.
Here’s what you’ll find in your telescope settings once your telescope is connected to the app:
Telescope information
At the top of your telescope's settings page, you can see information about your telescope (whether you are connected as an operator or an observer, battery percentage, storage capacity, and telescope model). You'll see the charging confirmation icon if the telescope is connected to the charger .
Park and turn off
You can park and turn off your telescope using the buttons shown in the image below.
Note: It is also possible to turn off your telescope by pressing 5 sec on the on/off physical button of the telescope, but it will not park. If you click 3 times on the on/off button, it will park.
Telescope Wi-Fi settings
Below, you can see your telescope Wi-Fi name (the last 6 characters correspond to your telescope serial number) and set your telescope Wi-Fi settings.
If you tap on Telescope Wi-Fi settings, you can change your telescope's Wi-Fi name and set up a password that will be required to connect to it.
It'd be best for you to leave the channel setting on AUTO. These are channels in the 2.4 GHz band. The telescope must communicate on one of them. "Auto" means that the telescope will choose the least congested channel itself, while trying not to interfere with other equipment using nearby channels.
User status
You can either release or request the operator status if you are connected as an observer.
Learn more about the Observer/Operator status here: Operator and Observer Status Explained.
Data upload
If your telescope’s memory storage is more than 0%, you can upload your data to our server to share your observations with us if you want to participate in science missions, or in case you want to retrieve your RAW data (How to Directly Download the Raw Data From Your Telescope to Your Computer?).
Learn more about upload in this article: Data storage & memory: About upload.
Sensor calibration
Tap the button, as in the image below, to calibrate the sensor.
Learn more about sensor calibration in this article: Sensor calibration / Dark-Frame: How and Why.
Eyepiece focus (for our telescopes with an eyepiece)
Tap the button, as in the image below, to display a target overlay in the eyepiece.
The target displayed in the eyepiece will look like the picture below :
Telescope’s orientation
Tap the button, as in the image below, to start your telescope orientation if required.
Learn more about orientation in this article: How to Do the Telescope’s Orientation?
Other settings
You can tick the limit rotation option if you want to avoid straining on the charging cable while it is plugged into your telescope. This will limit the rotation of your telescope on its azimuth axis.
You can tick this option to change the default blue color of the LED indicator to red.
Finally, at the bottom of the telescope settings page, you'll find your telescope's serial number and the version number of the firmware installed on it.