Introduction
Nexus DSC is a digital setting circles computer with included WiFi interface for your telescope. It works with
most popular telescopes – on equatorial or Alt-Azimuth
mounts.
Nexus DSC is a very sophisticated device for locating
celestial object in the sky. Only two rotary encoders have
to be fitted to your telescope in order to be able to locate
celestial object with Nexus DSC.
Encoders and wiring are not included.
Digital setting circles specifications
• Intuitive graphical user interface
• Supports Alt-Az mounts, Equatorial Mounts, Equatorial
Platforms
• Supports a one, a two star and a three stars alignment
methods
• Filter objects by magnitude, constellation and object type
o Named stars
o Bright stars, Flamsteed, Bayer, Asterisms
o Planets, Sun, Moon
o Common named objects
o Full catalogues: Abell Galaxy Clusters, Abell Planetaries,
Arakelian, Arp Peculiar Galaxies, Barnard, Caldwell,
Collinder, ESO, Herschel, Hickson Compact Groups,
King, LBN, Markarian galaxies, Messier, Minkowski
planetaries, IC, NGC, Palomar Globulars, PK, PN,
Sharpless, Stock, Terzan, Trumpler, UGC, and others.
• Multi-millions of objects are located on the supplied
microSD card:
o Comets and Asteroids (updatable from the MPC)
o HyperLEDA catalogue (PGC)
o MCG,
o SAO
o Full Washington Double Stars catalogue
• Displays object’s information: magnitude, size, surface
brightness, spectral class, double star separations,
galaxies morphology, alternative names, rise time, set
time, transit time, cross catalog IDs, etc.
• Identify function; can also display up to 1024 nearby
objects
• Tour function
• Includes a multi point telescope pointing analysis system
for telescope pointing corrections if needed
• Supports rotary encoders with up to 9,999,999 steps per
revolution; supports up to 100,000,000 steps per second
• Shows internal battery status – remaining capacity,
current power consumption and percentage of charge
remaining
• Can be interfaced to a tablet/smartphone/computer using
a standards RS232 interface or internal WiFi interface
• Internal real-time clock can be synchronized with GPS
time
• Time display of local time, UTC and local sidereal time
• Supports LX200 emulation
• Supports ServoCAT, SiTech, SkyTracker motor controllers.
Quick Setup guide and manual:
https://www.astrodevices.com/Support/ManualsandGuides/index.html
Differences between Nexus DSC and Nexus DSC Pro (cut and paste address):
https://www.astrodevices.com/resources/Nexus-DSC-Pro/Nexus-DSC-and-Nexus-DSC-Pro-features.pdf