GOTO Servo System for Losmandy Equatorial Mounts from Venturescope

Now you can have the ultimate GOTO system for your Losmandy Mount

The system is completely self contained, no external computer is necessary. It can be retrofitted by the user.

DC Servo motors

The choice of servo motors gives two main advantages over stepper motor based systems.

Servo motors run with a continuous smooth rotation, rather than discreet steps as with stepper motors. They also have very high torque, even at high slewing speeds.

Features

• Very High Precision pointing to less than 1 arc minute
• Object search mode with user definable search radius
• Sidereal, Solar Lunar and King tracking rates
• User brightness adjustable LED display
• Up to 256 alignment stars permitted either side of the meridian
• Menus are accessed by the standard Losmandy 4 button hand paddle 
• An optional deluxe hand paddle that repeats the Main panel display information 
• RS232 serial port control by a PC using software such as The Sky, Guide 7.0 or Palm Planetarium
• T-Point (Software Bisque) Compatible
• Internal real time clock that displays, UTC, Local Mean Time an Sidereal Time
• Up to 10 degrees per second slewing (G-8)
• User definable Guiding, Centering Slewing and GOTO speeds 
• Permanent Periodic error Correction
• Allows manual telescope movement with optional shaft encoders
• Southern and Northern Hemisphere operation
• Retains position information after power off (for permanent observatory use)
• EPROM upgradeable software

Gemini can be used as a stand alone system in the field.

It can be powered by any 1500+mA, 12-18 Volt DC source.

No personal computer is required.

A user brightness adjustable LED display allows navigation through all internal databases for field use without a PC.

The following databases comprising about 41,000 objects are built into the Gemini system, more than enough to keep even the most avid observer busy for some time!

• Messier catalogue (110 objects)
• NGC revised NGC (7840 objects
• IC revised IC (5386 objects)
• Sh2 Sharpless 2 (313 objects)
• Bright Stars (167 Objects)
• SAO Stars (17635 Objects)

If you haven't looked at the mounts for this fantastic GOTO system, then check out the GM-8 or the G-11 or the mighty HGM-TITAN

Price of Gemini Retrofit System: £1295.00