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I had never tried the Object Search feature in Gemini I but decided to give it a try a few days ago. This is the feature where the mount should pan within a specified FOV to locate an object you think is nearby. However, when trying it (albeit indoors), the mount never really moved that I could see. If I put my ear up to the motors, I could hear them doing something different than sidereal tracking, but no obvious motion. It was almost like it was panning using something like guiding rate. Have others gotten this to work? Is there some setting I need to adjust to change the panning speed?

What is the sequence for using Gemini 1 with Sellarium or Carte du Ciel and a laptop? I know there is a particular initial order of events to make it work. -- Steven Gaber Oldsmar, FL USA

Hi! I would like to take my Losmandy mount to dark sky locations where there is no power. I'd appreciate any suggestions from the community for a good, basic portable power supply that works with Gemini 2. Thanks!!

Hi everyone, so far I have been using APT (Astro Photography Tool) for automating taking frames, but I failed to promt a meridian flip. Has anybody actually managed to do this using APT and Gemini 2 Level 5 ? Would be great to have confirmation that it works in principle before I invest even more time to get it done. Otherwise I will switch to NINA, which has a proven record for this. Thanks a lot, Joerg

With Gemini I, when building a model, you are supposed to use Synchronize for the first star and Additional Align for subsequent stars. I'm wondering why that is? If something special is needed for the first star, the firmware knows it is starting with a new model and could just do the synchronize operation itself when you tap Additional Align. I know this is sort of a moot point since the Gemini I firmware will not be updated. But it comes into play when building a model using SkySafari. It only has Align and so you can't do a Synchronize on the first star. When we wrote the SkySafari code I *think* we might have detected this was the first star and sent a Synchronize command rather than Align. However, I'm not sure. Anyway, why does the first star need Synchronize? I haven't run into other mounts that make a similar distinction.

Hello there I hope this is authorized, I have a G 11 that has an outfitted on step from Peter ~ it has an oh vision worm and a hand controller to allow for continuous motion. Peter has been working very closely with me and the mount guides wonderfully and he has even recorded its performance of the controller. I have a custom pelican case that both halves of the G 11 can stay in/be shipped in and it includes the captains wheels for the clutches. And the nicer thicker screws for mounting. I'm asking for 2300+ fees and 1/2 of shipping. It also has several additional counterweights. I live in Indianapolis and would be happy to drive 200 miles It is essentially a new mount! it has been cleaned and regreased as well, please reach out. 317-430-1010 Dawn

Please could i have some help. Can I polar Align with Polemaster and not through Gemini 1 handset ? How do I inform the Gemini handset that the telescope is now aligned? When I use NINA it says telescope not polar aligned. I would appreciate any feed back on this. thanks Ken

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Hello everybody. Can you use the Celestron Focus Motor for SCT and EdgeHD and RASA. With Gemini2?

My gemini one is not slewing to the correct objects and some times slews and points down to the surface. Does anybody have any suggestions. Thank you

I'm using Gemini 1 and NINA, when i input a object the telescope slews to the wrong part of the sky or points down to the ground, i am at a loss to how to correct this problem. I have used Polemaster to align the telescope on Polaris. when i input for the telescope to return to home with CWD it still goes to a incorrect position. When using the hand controller for Gemini 1 is there a button to press to confirm you have correct polar alignment as i find the handset confusing? I also cannot find out how to align the scope to a star for its initial alignment procedure. Thank you for any advice given as i am getting very frustrated with all these problems. Ken

Hello all. I’ve been having problems with my Gemini I in cold weather. I do solar Imaging in the mornings when temperatures are often around freezing. My mount and Gemini are at that temperature when I start up. What I’m seeing is my Gemini tries to go through start up, but I get a crazy dysfunctional screen, where half the screen looks like it’s trying to go through start up and the other half shows some nonsense. When I bring the whole thing indoors to room temperature, it seems to work OK. Is this more likely the hand control or the Gemini unit? The power supply seems to be working well.

Can I just buy the Gemini 2 computer and HC or do I also have to buy the DEC and RA motors?

Cross posting from the MI250 Users Group: Sorry for the longish post, but the whole topic of properly using PEC has had me scratching my head. My setup is an observatory mounted MI250 with Gemini 1. I usually use Maxim/DL to autoguide, but have used PHD2 so I think I understand both. With my MI250/Gemini 1, I usually don't take astrophotos with PEC enabled. There are times when it would have been helpful, but I am not confident that I understand or am setting the PEC settings correctly. I hope some of the people who have used the PEC function successfully can provide their settings and some guidance on using PEC. Some topics which I am murky on include: Smoothing and/or Averaging the PEC data. Conceptually these two functions seem to do the same thing. I get that seeing causes the guide star to move around, so 'combining' multiple PEC training runs will tend to cancel out this 'noise' (a bit like how stacking increases signal and reduces noise in an image), but I don't get the difference between Smoothing and Averaging, and how these are best used. Do you use them both at the same time? Delay Correction. I get that this is supposed to deal with the fact that there is a delay between the autoguider image capture and when the correction is applied to the mount. This is caused by the time it takes to capture each autoguider image and maybe some minor delay in computing the centriod, then signaling the mount to move. What I don't understand is how to compute this correctly, and what sign (positive or negative) to apply to the setting. It seems to me that calculating this value should depend on the capture time of the autoguider images. For example, sometimes I guide with 1s exposures, and others I may use longer (2 or 4s) if the guide stars are faint, or seeing is bad (using longer exposures to slow chasing the guide star around). But I am confused how to calculate the delay correction, and what sign to apply to the data (as I recall the input wants + or - in addition to the calculated value). My guess was that you take your autoguider exposure time in seconds (say 4 seconds) and multiply that by the steps/second value from the table in 4.3.2.4 (26.74 in my case) to get the delay value (106.96), but I am not sure this is right, and don't know what the sign (+/-) means. Drift Correction. I think I get what this does - it averages all the PEC data to see if the mount misalignment is causing the guide star to drift in a particular direction, at a particular rate, and then applies a global correction to the PEC data to remove this offset. In my case, I have an observatory with a very well aligned mount, so I am assuming this that Drift Correction should not be necessary, unless the telescope axis are not orthoganal. The description however raises some questions in my mind about my assumptions about using PEC: Using PEC: With my observatory mounted MI250, my assumption was that each time I went out to image, I might run a new PEC training session while waiting for the camera to cool down and then Average and/or Smooth the data. In essence this would be improving my PEC data each time. I assumed that it did not matter what coordinates in the sky the object I trained was located, because PEC is removing mainly worm gear errors. I now wonder if this is right or wrong. My concern is the main ring gear which the worm gear drives. In my observatory setup, the clutches are usually never disengaged. This means that the worm gear is driving a different sector of the main ring gear when looking East that it is when looking West. So is this idea of reusing PEC sessions over a long term a bad idea because I am training on different worm/ring gear combinations? Would it be better to re-train the PEC each night on a star near where I will be imaging? For example, should I clear the PEC data, get my shot framed up, get the autoguider running, and then before imaging do a few training sessions? Lastly, Maximum Pulses just has me baffled. Maybe some can explain what this is and why you would use it. - Bill

Hello everybody As of lately I kept having issues with GOTO and Meridian Flip commands (from EKOS / INDI) with my mount (Losmandy Gemini G11). The behavior that I observed: - Meridian flip triggers (still an exposure ongoing, it has to wait) - Once exposure is finished, meridian flip starts - Telescope moves extremely slow (as in Centering speed slow) during the meridian flip and moves in a wrong direction - I manually abort the mount movements and trigger a manual GOTO - Now the telescope moves fast, but misses the target slightly and overshoots (and does not stop moving further) - I again abort the movement and trigger a new manual GOTO - Telescope again moves fast (as it should) but misses target again and overshoots again - I stop the movement again - I stop the scheduler and delete / purge all the config of the mount in the Mount tab of EKOS - I trigger a new manual GOTO - Now it slews to the correct position and stops where it should - I restart the Scheduler and now it works Last night when this happend, I went outside to check the configured mount limits on the Hand-Controller and realized that the hand controller was frozen (as in not responding to user input anymore). So I went ahead and restarted the mount through a power cycle. Afterwards the GOTO command worked and it slewed back on target, but the Alignment modul that triggered a pointing correction / slew caused the mount to slew in the complete wrong direction again. Meridian Flips used to work without issues before. I have EKOS / Kstars set to sync the local system time to all connected devices. Wierd thing is, just two nights ago the Meridian flips also worked without issues. Has anybody ever experienced anything similar? Best regards & Thanks Tino Heuberger

Trying to understand what is the best start up cold or warm or maybe it doesn’t matter? Just trying figure out how to minimize any misunderstanding on how both communicate with each other. Thanks

Hi everyone This is a quick note to let you know I am leaving Losmandy, effective today. I wanted to thank everyone for the last four years. I really enjoyed interacting with you all, meeting some of you in person, and learning so much in the process. I am certainly better for the time spent, and I hope I have helped you as well. I am especially pleased to have played a role in getting Level 6 released into the world for everyone. It was a very long effort, especially thanks to Rene David and Paul for the incredible work they put into this. You can always call the shop or send an email request to techsupport@.... Thanks again Brian Brian Valente astronomy portfolio https://www.astrobin.com/users/bvalente/ nature portfolio brianvalentephotography.com other astronomy https://www.brianvalentephotography.com/astrophotography/