I received the AP newsletter and it offers prices for absolute encoders for the 1600...are the user installed kits now available for order?

Another question: to upgrade to the CP4 controller on the 1600, does one need to upgrade the handpad to V 4.19 (which I never use but maybe twice a year when collimating the telescope)?  For me, 4.17 works just fine, I park through the GTOV2 ASCOM driver as well as run the system.

Thanks...

Mike J. Shade: mshade@q.com

Mike J. Shade Photography:

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In War: Resolution

In Defeat: Defiance

In Victory: Magnanimity

In Peace: Goodwill

Sir Winston Churchill

Already, in the gathering dusk, a few of the stars are turning on their lights.

Vega, the brightest one, is now dropping towards the west.  Can it be half

a year since I watched her April rising in the east?  Low in the southwest

Antares blinks a sad farwell to fall...

Leslie Peltier, Starlight Nights

International Dark Sky Association: www.darksky.org