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Originally Posted by Waxing_Gibbous
Given that I can input co-ordinates faster than it takes a GPS unit to lock-on (if at all), aren't they, well frankly, a bit of a waste of money?  |
As long as you don't make typos and remember whether it wants DD/MM/YYYY or MM/DD/YYYY or YYYY/MM/DD and time in UTC or local with allowance for DST, maybe. It's not very amusing when you get the date/time wrong and it slews off in the wrong direction.
Mine feeds the mount the location and the UTC time. I put the tripod together, attach the Gemini, GPS and power cable and by the time I'm ready to turn the Gemini on I have a fix.