Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) Window: dual-line, 16 character display backlit screen for comfortable viewing of telescope information and scrolling text Instructs the telescope to use a selected star or object as an alignment position Direction Keys allow complete control of the telescope in any direction Contains the following catalogs; Messier, NGC, Caldwell, Planets, SAO brightest stars, and lists of the most popular objects Displays the coordinates and useful information about the celestial objects selected from the database Tour mode seeks out the most interesting sky objects for the current date and time, and automatically slews the telescope to those objects RS-232 Jack allows interfacing with a computer to control the telescope remotely Tracking rates: sidereal, solar, lunar. Tracking modes: alt-az, EQ north/south. Slew speeds: 1,2,3/sec - 64x, 32x, 16x, 8x, 4x, 2x. Alignment procedures: skyalign, auto 2-star, 1-star, 2-star, solar system