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Old 04-12-2011, 01:36 AM
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Yep GEM is a German Equatorial Mount, it rotates the opposite way to the earth so that you can track stars.

Dobsonians are manual so you push it to what you want to look at and then track it yourself.

Flex tube is what skywatcher calls them, but yes they are can be collapsed.
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