A surveying instrument includes a pedestal provided with a guide light irradiation unit provided with a light source to irradiate with guide light indicating a collimation direction of the surveying instrument to an operator, a tracking optical system which locks a target, a ranging optical system which ranges a distance to the target, and a control circuit which calculates surveying data by a ranging result of the ranging optical system, and a transmitting and receiving unit which receives survey setting point data regarding a survey setting operation and sends the surveying data obtained by the control circuit.
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