On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 06:40 PM, Michael Herman wrote:
Gemini-1 offers only warm start and cold start.
Michael, that's not correct.
Gemini-1,? just like Gemini-2 offered Warm Start, Warm Restart, and Cold Start as options. The difference between Warm Start and Warm Restart does matter in that with Warm Restart you can continue from where you stopped the mount during previous session, without losing position or having to park at CWD. Warm Start requires you to move the mount to CWD before you start. If you don't, you'll have the physical mount coordinates all screwed up, potentially causing the safety limits to be in the wrong place, and that could result in equipment damage due to run-in with the mount.
It is important to keep in mind the differences between the three different start modes, they are there for a reason.
Regards,
? ? ?-Paul
Paul Kanevsky