Hi Cuttsy,
Thanks for the post.
Gary Kopff here from Wildcard Innovations, manufacturers of the Argo Navis DTC.
The following is unashamedly a commercial response to your question.
As amateur astronomers ourselves, we take an active role in supporting the amateur community and as this posting is testimony to, even participate in forums such as these.
Argo Navis is designed and manufactured in Sydney, Australia and is exported all around the world. In 2003, U.S. Sky & Telescope
magazine chose it as one of its much coveted Hot Products of the Year.
Under the hood of Argo Navis is a dual CPU architecture including a CPU with a full external 32 bit data bus and internal high speed caches. There is a second CPU just dedicated to driving the encoders. This type of processing power allows the unit to search its 30,000+ object database in realtime and display the closest object on its display as you move the scope around.
There are many more features that you can read about on our web-site at
http://www.wildcard-innovations.com.au. There you will also find the entire 178 page User Manual available for download and details of encoder mounting kits for literally dozens of types of mounts.
Argo Navis now supports the new 10,000 step optical encoders. When fitted to each axis of the scope, these provide up to a 49% increase in pointing resolution compared to 8192 step encoders and a massive 525% increase in pointing resolution compared to 4000 step encoders.
So if you are after a state-of-the-art, high performance, fully featured, Australian compliant DSC/DTC, Argo Navis is the only choice.
If you email me at
sales@wildcard-innovations.com.au I would be happy to answer any questions you have.
Best Regards
Gary Kopff
Managing Director
Wildcard Innovations Pty. Ltd.
20 Kilmory Place, Mount Kuring-Gai
NSW. 2080. Australia
Phone +61-2-9457-9049
Fax +61-2-9457-9593
sales@wildcard-innovations.com.au
http://www.wildcard-innovations.com.au