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Observing Sun

To observe the sun, make sure your telescope is designed to observed the sun, or is equipped with accessory that is. Make sure to carefully follow the instruction of your sun observation equipment. Observing the sun improperly can be dangerous to both people and equipment.

To allow app to display object within 5 degree of the sun in catalog or alignment star menu, turn on the setting in Settings > Advanced > Observe Sun. Regardless whether or not this setting is enabled, app will not prevent you from pointing the telescope to the sun using the slew direction buttons.

To have the mount track the sun, perform one-star alignment with the sun. If you are using an alt-azimuth mount, an alternative is to turn on [Point And Track] targeting the sun.