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Mike at Bintel in Sydney turned one on for me on Saturday.
Indeed, it said there was nothing to view due to too much light but said it was ready for terrestrial viewing. It did do a satellite search and slewed around logging on. It did a lot of talking in an American accent.
It seems to me from the size of the mount that it was designed for an 8" OTA and from the look it wouldn't be too hard to fit one. Alignment would be an issue of course.
Appeared to be a nice neat compact unit and as an easy carry and set up unit sure did have a lot of pluses.
Obviously could not check out the optics and personally would prefer a larger aperture as I am used to my larger Newts.
I thought it had a lot of promise and probably is a rival for the Celestron series of similar mounted scopes but apparently without the alignment issues.
If they bring out a 14 or 16 on an GEM hmmmm....
Frank
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