On Orion's Facebook they are discussing the new Orion dob that tracks, has GoTo and will still function as a manual dob. Here is the link to the comments with info in it. http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3212996&id=87123139665&comments They state on their Facebook page: "Orion is pleased to give you a sneak peak into an exciting new product line we’ve been working on: the Orion XTg series of Dobsonian telescopes with full GoTo functionality. The 12” XT12g with full GoTo is coming soon. We expect an XT8g and XT10g as well. More details will be announced soon, but we wanted to let our Facebook fans know about this exciting new line before any information is posted on telescope.com." Ken Sablinsky from Orion's Facebook page states: "Hi Barb, yes it will have tracking so once the go-to system finds an object, it will continue to stay in the field of view. And Brandon, since the go-to is a closed loop system, it will locate and track, but still allow you to manually move the scope around without losing computer alignment. We'll have more info available shortly on our website, as well as here on facebook. Stay tuned!" Interesting.