My thoughts are in the right Direction. My near future plans are to acquire a smaller aperture wide field APO say maybe ES Esprit 102mm or TS photoline 90mm something along those lines.a give a Berlebach tripod a try. Anyway any of these telescopes would work well for AP when I get all the other equipment together. So far things are working well with my G11 except the weather. I appreciate all the help and input from you and others here on this forum. I have been printing out alot of material to add to the Gemini manual.good proven reference material with the hope that I can avoid some of the errors.but I like a challenge and solving problems and have been around long enough to know when you reach a certain point of frustration "TAKE A BREAK" so you can clear your head then you can start thinking about okay what's not working right and what is working right and how to fix the former. Reading the threads on this blog I am beginning understand how Gemini works and figure out where the issues might be located. Enough rambling LOL... Happy Skies my friend.