Yes, one of the few "annoyances", as it were, is having to press the alternate button to speed up movement. Otherwise, I mainly use one hand. I can't envision a software solution other than possibly if I depress a button twice in rapid succession that would increment the speed to the next level. And if I press again once, it would return to the speed at which it started. Just thinking out loud.
And I don't think it would be much to implement your suggestion to map the buttons to different directions. That might be a feature for down the road once the system is past the normal beta fixes.
Man, I love my Gemini. It is SO engrained. (And I know my way pretty well around the NexStar system.)
Bill in Gold Canyon, AZ
USA
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--- In Gemini-II@..., "Rainer" <rsbfoto@...> wrote:
Hi Bill,
Just think about how you control your mount via the handcontroller right now.
You surely use both hands in order to press the buttons.
? Have you thought about your left hand and the distance of the buttons to your left thumb ?
Try it and you will be enlightened :-) ha ha ha
... but who am I ?? I do not even know where I left my DeLuxe Handpaddles :-( bua bua bua
regards Rainer
--- In Gemini-II@..., "William Shaheen" <wjshaheen@> wrote:
I thought so! re("I have not touched the Handcontroller for the last 4 years Big <G> ha ha ha").
Nah, I knew what you meant and just couldn;t resist busting your chops. When I first got my Gemini, I debated whether to operate it with the cable sticking out from the top or bottom. (I settled on the bottom.) Funny how we adopt techniques arbitrarily and then can't live with doing it any other way.
Regards,
Your neighbor to the north.
--- In Gemini-II@..., "Rainer" <rsbfoto@> wrote:
Hi Bill,
Just too lazy :-) Just kidding.
Have you done it for a longer time ? If yes, then tell me how your left hand feels after a while ?? The cable does inhibit the free movement of your fingers over the handcontroller buttons.
Do not forget that you hold the handcontroller for many hours in your hands while observing visually.
These is maybe a nit bit but that does separate a good controller from a bad one ...
In the same way that a cable sticking out from the front of a Handcontroller (as some other mounts or astronomy accessories do have)is not a comfortable way to work. A cable coming out from the back gives you a nice low gravity pint and does not pull your hands always forward and you have to counterarrest backwards and makes you feel tired after a while. (just hold a light hammer in your hands for a while :-) )
Those are all little points onto which oine has to put attention when designing something.
That is not an ergonomic solution ...
Anyhow, Who am I to be writing this :-) . I have not touched the Handcontroller for the last 4 years Big <G> ha ha ha
regards Rainer
--- In Gemini-II@..., "William Shaheen" <wjshaheen@> wrote:
So, why not just rotate the hand-controller as you hold it? For example, with the cable extending off to your left. You can then reverse the directions of either buttons to suit.
Bill
--- In Gemini-II@..., "Rainer" <rsbfoto@> wrote:
Hi Tom,
No, the DEC movement does not reverse do to a Meridian.
Just right now I was thinking that the arrangement of the movements on the buttons is not quite logical, as you just mentioned that some people would like to rotate the buttons.
Well if I am sitting behind the mount and pointing the telescope North I would like to have the RA East an West movement on the vertical buttons and the DEC movements on the horizontal buttons.
Why ?
Because a button p¨®inting away from me is forward and one pointing to me is backward. So forward means move to the West and backwards means move to the East
and
Right means move to the NOrth and Left move to the South ...
Just my II cents to this.
regards Rainer
--- In Gemini-II@..., "tom@" <tom@> wrote:
PS
Ren¨¦ asked me to get the opinions of what the users would prefer for
reverse symbols, not where to provide symbols or not provide symbols.
Basically it will probably be majority rules. I am just trying to help
him get the data he requested.
Tom Hilton
On 2/27/2011 9:35 PM, tom@ wrote:
Gale
all of the scenarios you presented, plus some people like to make them
follow the movement of the telescope, by either rotating the hand
controller of flipping the buttons. Also it also matters how you want
to use the tactile buttons on the rear. Some are using them from the
front, and some are turning the controller over. The default mode at
this time is to use them from the front, without turning the controller
over. If you want to turn the hand controller over and use it that
way, you need to reverse the RA buttons. It has been a long time since
I tracked past the meridian, do to obstructions. Don't the Dec movement
reverse relative to the sky after a meridian flip? If so would it not
be nice to be able to reverse the DEC buttons. I am not at all sure of
this through. I cannot test it either as all my motors are at Losmandy
for upgrade.
Tom Hilton
