Extreme Resolution Encoders are now available for installation on scopes and mounts from Gondwana Telescopes!
These encoders START with a minimum resolution of 311,296 steps and can exceed 1,500,000 steps.
Best of all when coupled with a Nexus unit from Astro Devices, you do not need to change the way you use your scope. There is no lag time from the CPU, no step skipping, and no reading error.
Why need such high resolution?
Apps such as Sky Safari and Stellarium have put an extraordinary number of DSO's within observing reach. Many of these are then tightly packed together or obscured by the Milky Way or other objects, and this makes identifying individual objects next to impossible using charts (paper or from apps) or encoders of lesser resolution. This is when extreme resolution encoders are essential and coupled to a Nexus system and an app such as Sky Safari.
Tried to identify individual objects from within the Large Magellanic Cloud?
Or chasing globular clusters from Andromeda or Sombrero galaxies?
How about the Cirinus Dwarf galaxy or the GC Djorg 2 from the mottled foreground mess of the Milky Way?
Please note that these extreme resolution encoders may not be compatible with other digital setting circle systems.
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