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roystarman
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Reged: 01/26/09
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Get Digital Setting Circles? NGC max or SKY Commander. This is kind of an inbetween the manual and a goto mount.
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Reged: 08/21/09
Posts: 10
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New to the site, trying to learn as much as possible, your review was helpful and informative. Thanks for taking the time to do so.
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Zotty
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Reged: 07/24/09
Posts: 127
Loc: The Netherlands
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Finally got a powersupply to give my G11 a spin. Can't comment yet on details, but I do feel the need to add a note about the Gemini handcontroller. The quote "deluxe handcontroller" just feels extremely cheap compared to the mount itself. Cheap plastic housing and cheap - click click - buttons.
That's my only beef with it after playing with it for 1 hour. The menu structure settles quickly into your mind and I love the look of the display.
One other thing that new users should keep in mind is that an additional lighter counterweight could come in handy. Not having a main OTA yet - only a 72mm guidescope - I can tell you it's impossible to achieve balance with the included 21lbs weight... wish I had bought a lighter weight right from the start.
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GSO 8" RC ♦ WO Megrez 72FD ♦ Losmandy G11 Gemini ♦ Atik 314L+ ♦ Starlight Xpress 2" wheel with Astronomik filters ♦ QHY5
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Sarkikos
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Reged: 12/18/07
Posts: 1052
Loc: Suburban Maryland
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Ian,
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I've never used Goto , only the reason my new GEM has it is because I couldn't get the mount without Goto.
Nothing wrong with finding things in the sky the old fashioned way and learning the sky in the process.
Here, here. I second that. None of my scopes have goto or pushto and I do fine, thank you very much. Most anything I can't find would not be worth seeing once you do find it, because it'd be so faint and fuzzy. Though if I ever get a bigger scope - which probably won't be for at least a few more years - I'll probably get one with pushto, i.e., DSCs. But I don't think I would ever get goto. Sorry, but that still seems like a gimmick to me. Just tell me where the object is. I don't need the scope to move itself there!  And I don't take pictures. I want to look at the object, not at a picture of the object. 
Clear Skies,
Mike
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Celestron 10" f5 Newt on 1stBase (DSO)
Zhumell 8" f6 Newt, Bosma 6" f12 MCT (NSO)
6" f5 Newt, 130ST, 4.5" f4.4 Ball w/GLP, ST80 w/Crayford (RFTs)
C4-R (NSO/DS)
90mm f13 MCT (Luna/DS)
SkyMaster 25x100, 15x70
Zhumell 20x80
Barska XWA 10x50, 8x40
OptiView LPR 10x50
Const View 2.3x40
BV-125C
CG5, 2 drv / CG4, 2 drv, wood legs, ScopeStuff saddle / CG3, 1 drv
SV AZ / 501HDV on Bogen 055XB / P+ on Oberwerk
QuikFinder, Telrad
Orion Dynamo Pro 12, Dew-Not
Have GLP and not afraid to use it!
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