I'm impressed - fired up sequence generator Pro/elbrus last night....
Turned on the Gemini, cold started, no model.
Typed in the RA/Dec for M83, automatically slewed, plate solved, correction slew, solved - bang, on target.... did this for several other fuzzies just for laughs....
No more craning my head into eyepieces dangling off my GEM trying to build a reasonable pointing model! Now I just need more aperture....