Re: Gemini 2 handset will not connect to Gemini 2
On Mon, Apr 21, 2025 at 06:35 PM, Jay Freeman wrote:
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> Update on my problem: I called Losmandy and spoke to Tanya; she said that
> about half a dozen new Gemini-2 units had made it out the door
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Paul Kanevsky
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Re: Upgrading Gemini L6 to L6.02 or L6.12
Hi Michael,
Glad to hear you got your guiding working again. What I find strange is that you are reporting that up arrow on the Gemini.NET virtual HC is sending guide South command -- the only way
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Paul Kanevsky
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Re: Upgrading Gemini L6 to L6.02 or L6.12
I'm sure Paul has.some ideas why this is happening but I'm fresh out of ideas.? Something is flipped or flipping, I don't know all the places it could be altered but at least we have some change
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Chip Louie
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Re: Upgrading Gemini L6 to L6.02 or L6.12
Chip and Paul,
Last night I was able to upgrade to Level 6.12.? I performed the HGM reset after this upgrade.? Eventually, I was able to get the guiding to work but I had to alter the guiding
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Michael Broyles
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Re: Gemini 2 handset will not connect to Gemini 2
Update on my problem: I called Losmandy and spoke to Tanya; she said that about half a dozen new Gemini-2 units had made it out the door with an SD card installed in the Gemini-2 box that was too
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Jay Freeman
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Re: Gemini 2 handset will not connect to Gemini 2
Typo in my last, fixed below -- net address should have read "192.168.0.111".
-- Jay Reynolds Freeman
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Jay_Reynolds_Freeman@...
http://JayReynoldsFreeman.com (personal web
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Jay Freeman
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Re: Gemini 2 handset will not connect to Gemini 2
Continuing my report ...
Summary: It has gotten worse, now the problem seems to be intermittant ... :-(
This morning, I set up the hand controller and Gemini-2 box as before, and again connected to
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Jay Freeman
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Re: Gemini BOOTLOADER update available
Paul,
This just shows how important it is to ask for advice.? Thinking about this as a system issue, I pulled out a defunct Windows 10 Surface Tablet {one last act of Service from the thing} and
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WayBack
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Re: What Coordinate System is Gemini Using?
I don¡¯t see why not.
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Paul Kanevsky
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Re: Gemini BOOTLOADER update available
Sounds like a problem with the ULink2 USB device/adapter. If you're seeing the driver show up in driver manager, then the device is being detected but apparently not able to connect to uVision. What
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Paul Kanevsky
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Re: Gemini BOOTLOADER update available
Paul,
It looks correct on the first panel.? On the second panel this displays as last shown.? Set to 100 KHz but no ULINK2 can be found.
I'm reasonably confident then it's a ULINK2 issue but I've
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WayBack
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Re: Gemini BOOTLOADER update available
Doug,
On the Debug tab, make sure you have ULink2 device selected next to Use: radio button and that Use Simulator is unchecked:
Then, click Settings next to the drop-down list. Make sure the clock
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Paul Kanevsky
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Re: Gemini BOOTLOADER update available
Paul,
I used Windows uninstall of the Kiel software and reinstalled the package prior to sending the first note.? However, with the suggestion to repeat I found an issue occurred by my using the
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WayBack
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Re: Gemini 2 handset will not connect to Gemini 2
Hmm,
From your initial post it sounds like you bought one of the two available Gemini 2 mini upgrades. If this is a new purchase from Losmandy stop and call Losmandy, let them handle diagnosis and
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Chip Louie
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Re: What Coordinate System is Gemini Using?
In SkySafari you can specify the precession epoch: in the Settings menu choose Precession, checking "Use Current Epoch" sets it to JNow, otherwise you can specify the epoch (2000 for
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Zolt Levay
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Re: What Coordinate System is Gemini Using?
Thanks Paul. I can get J2000 coordinates from my Starry Night Pro.? I've been to Didier's page on Catalogs and found some I'd like to add to Gem. His directions for loading them sound easy, I like
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fishonkevin@...
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Re: Gemini 2 handset will not connect to Gemini 2
Sounds like a good plan, Jay. If you have a 2-4GB micro-SD card on hand, I'd format it with FAT and then try replacing the card in the Gemini CPU with it. That should be good enough to get Gemini to
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Paul Kanevsky
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Re: What Coordinate System is Gemini Using?
Hi Kevin, Gemini is using J2000 coordinates for catalog entries. Sounds like SkySafari gives you JNow coordinates, precessed to epoch of date instead of J2000.
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Paul Kanevsky
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Re: Gemini 2 handset will not connect to Gemini 2
Summary: NO FIX.
Reporting test and debugging actions taken:
1) Put hand controller and Gemini 2 box on the bench at home, connected them, supplied power, and verified that problem still existed,
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Jay Freeman
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What Coordinate System is Gemini Using?
While using Sky Safari to track down SAO Numbers to add to my Double Star list, so I can use Gemini HC SAO catalog, I found that Sky Safari uses RA(2025.3)/Dec(2025.3). Searching for Beta Mon, I
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fishonkevin@...
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