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How to Access Your Telescope Settings
You can access your telescope's settings from the home page by tapping the Instrument button or the Settings button
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Then tap your telescope to access its settings.
If the telescope isn't connected to the app, the settings will be grayed out.
Telescope Information
At the top of the settings page, you will find information about your telescope:
- the model and serial number
- the app connection icon (Connected or Offline)
- the battery percentage and the charging icon if the telescope is charging
- the storage percentage
- the Operator or Observer status, with the option to release or take control
- the Shutdown button to park and turn off the telescope, at the top right
- and the ? icon to access our Help Center
Park and Turn Off
You can park and turn off your telescope using the Shutdown button in the upper left corner.
Note: You can also power down your telescope by pressing the physical on/off button for five seconds, but it will not return to the upright position.
Various Settings
The following settings allow you to access various options:
Telescope Wi-Fi Settings
You can view your telescope’s Wi-Fi name (the last six characters correspond to the serial number), change it, and set a password that you’ll be prompted to enter when connecting.
It is recommended that you 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 select the least congested channel on its own, while trying not to interfere with other devices using nearby channels.
Learn more:
How to Set My Telescope’s Wi-Fi Password?
Storage
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. We recommend keeping your storage low (below 20%), or better, empty.
Learn more :
How to Upload Your Scientific Data
How to Directly Download the Raw Data From Your Telescope to Your Computer?
Storage: How to Free up Space Memory on Your Telescope
Sensor calibration
This setting enables you to calibrate the sensor, which is necessary for achieving good image quality.
Learn more:
Sensor calibration / Dark-Frame: How and Why
Download
Enable the Direct Data Download feature to download your RAW images from your telescope to your computer via Wi-Fi.
Learn more:
How to Directly Download the Raw Data From Your Telescope to Your Computer?
Turn telescope LED to red
Check this option to change the LED indicator's default blue color to red.
Eyepiece focus (for our telescopes with an eyepiece)
To display an overlay target in the eyepiece. The eyepiece diopter can be adjusted from -4 to +4: simply turn the dial in either direction to adjust the focus to suit your vision.
The reticle displayed in the eyepiece looks like the image below:
This feature is available only on Odyssey Pro and eVscope telescopes that are equipped with eyepieces.
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.