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Mike, the GoTo sounds interesting if it is the original Vixen one and is actually a GoTo and not simply dual axis drives. The original Skysensor came out in the mid 1980's, black hand controller with 4 arrow keys and a stop button at the top with the rest of the keypad underneath. I think the database had around 700 objects in it including the Messier catalogue and brighter NGC objects. In (I think) the late 1990's Skysensor 3 came along, which had the same database. Skysensor 2000 was later still and had a much larger object list and is far from primitive, I have 2 of these still working perfectly. Spares for all of these are very difficult to find these days.
I have owned a couple of the Vixen 102M's in the past and they are very nice refractors, a bit of false colour but nothing too distracting. The draw tube would not accept anything larger than a 1.25 visual back though, which was odd because my old ED80 has a standard Vixen 2 inch draw tube, but oddly enough came with a 0.965 visual back and a set of 0.965 eyepieces and accessories.
I am guessing from the age that the mount is a Super Polaris, the guide scope is a real bonus! a few pictures would be nice.
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