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Old 20-11-2009, 09:01 PM
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Bassnut (Fred)
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Yes the Gemini is a bit hard to get used to to start with, but becomes intuative with use (as with anything I guess). After some 3 years constant use, I could operate it with my eyes shut. I got so good with the handcontroller, that it was faster to sync on power up and slew to something (in the end thats all you do night after night) than bother with PC control.

I wouldnt bother with anything else, its made for Losmandy mounts out of the box, is proven and reliable. Local support is very good, I had 2 serious faults (my fault) fixed in less than 2 days by ATS.

Many applications have dedicated drivers for Gemini, not just ASCOM, which allows for tight integration with special features not available with ASCOM only controllers.
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