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If you would like to avoid the hassle of daylight saving time, then enter the offset as 0 and the time and date as UTC time and Date. The Gemini-2 will work great with these setting anywhere in the world. Get UTC from World Time server. |
Here is where you set your time zone offset from UTC. Note: you do have to compensate for daylight saving time in this offset.
Positive offsets do not need a leading zero if they are only one digit.
The Gemini 2 will take care of that. Notice offsets West of UTC is
negative, and East is positive. The date, time and this offset is used to compute the correct UTC time and date for the Gemini-2 to calculate all of the star locations, along with your latitude and longitude. This offset can be in whole hours, Half hours, quarter hours, or even in minutes. See the link below. The more accurate you can set the time, the more accurate your first star "GOTO" will be. Once you align on your first star, then the Gemini-2 will make corrections from that star, and any more stars you align on. Hit "ENT" and go back to the previous menu. If you would prefer to only work in UTC, and not have to worry about daylight saving time changes, put 0 in this screen, and then Enter the UTC time and UTC date in the Time and DATE locations. The Gemini-2 will be perfectly happy using only UTC Here is more information on Half and Quarter timezones. Here is a Time Zone offset chart for the USA |