Hi Linwood,

Support for ASTAP and NINA in APPM have been finished. A few details need to be sorted out before it will be released, but it should not be much longer.

-Ray

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> Subject: [ap-gto] AP1100 coming, least hassle plate solver?
>
> I have an AP1100GTO-AE coming hopefully very soon.  My understanding for modeling is I will need software to
> build a model with APPM, and that I need some combination of Pinpoint, TSX, SGP plus camera control (though it
> appears so long as I have ASCOM that's covered, it's a ASI6200MM I would be using).  If it matters I got the
> RAPAS, no keypad, and will be using it with setup and teardown nightly.
>
> I have a MyT now I will be selling, so while I have TSX it will go with the mount.
>
> I use NINA for session manager and hope/plan to keep doing so.  My understanding is one day, maybe, APPM
> will support ASTAP but not yet, and probably not before I need something.
>
> What is the shortest and simplest path to satisfy APPM with the understanding I really do not care to use that path
> for imaging.  I.e. if I buy TXS, SGP or Pinpoint it will just be for APPM, and not for regular use during imaging.  At
> least that's my hope, that I can do that.
>
> I could keep TSX for a while but it's not worth it, since I plan to sell the mount. With no release date announced for
> ASTAP I think I need to plan on having to buy one of those three.
>
> I realize I could get trials, experiment with all of them once I get the mount and see how they work, but my guess is
> 99% of their features are irrelevant if all I want is plate solving.
>
> So I'm hoping you folks can save me some trouble -- what's the shortest, simplest path here.  I think all of these
> are in the few hundred dollar range, so in the scope of things it is not about cost, it is that I have so many other
> things to learn getting started I just want the simplest solution.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> Linwood
>