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Old 14-06-2011, 04:01 PM
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Bert,

Personally I think the PMX would be the better mount unless you were planning to mount something really heavy.

The PME is a joy to work with. One thing I really like is the home position and the complete integration of the various softwares like the Sky and CCDsoft and Precision PEC with the mount.

Home position is really valuable. It means you can rebalance your mount in the middle of the night. Send it to home and everything is realigned and then your go-tos all work again as before - brilliant!

My PME is specfied to be at least 7 arc seconds peak to peak.
Actual measured PE is 2.6! That is really really low.

It also slews very fast, connects really quickly, not fussy, works everytime etc etc. A very nice piece of machinery that has created a standard in the amateur astronomy world.

Titan is probably a nice mount. I personally am not a fan of Gemini as I found it fussy, complicated, took lots of work to get it all synched, easily lost etc. It has lots of fans but its its own world and it will take a bit to learn it and how to work it, that's fine if you want to spend 50+ hours getting familiar with it. Its got hot starts, cold starts, it would take 12 stars to get synched before go-tos were even close. My Tak does it in 1 synch.

PME/PMX is simple and intuitive and superbly thought out and engineered and in my opinion in another league perhaps only approached by AstroPhysics.

Greg.
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