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Re: VPort2 / Fault / Sync Target: Valid Alt/Az, RA/Dec, HA/Dec has not been received!"
Ray Gralak
Hi Aygen,
Unfortunately, you used the AP V2 Log Zipper and not the APCC log zipper, so there are no APCC logs.
So, please use the APCC log zipper to zip the APCC logs. You can run the APCC log zipper from APCC's Tools menu, as shown in this screenshot:
Thanks!
-Ray
> -----Original Message----- > From: main@ap-gto.groups.io [mailto:main@ap-gto.groups.io] On Behalf Of Erkaslan Aygen > Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2021 8:05 AM > To: main@ap-gto.groups.io > Subject: Re: [ap-gto] VPort2 / Fault / Sync Target: Valid Alt/Az, RA/Dec, HA/Dec has not been received!" > > Dear Ray, > > Thank you very much for your quick reply. Below is link to access the files. > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/lo9lxj6ggq9p6zo/AscomZip-Aygen-2021-10-16-165729.zip?dl=0 > > In the meantime, I did follow one of your recommendation to delete the ap.ini files and re-do the config "now" > of the AP Driver. > > Regards, > Aygen
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IC 1805, Heart Nebula | Mach1 GTO3 | Takahashi ε-180ED
Very happy owner of a Mach1 GTO3 since 2012. That mount honestly never let me down! Since a year it’s permanently placed in my backyard roll-off roof observatory. Where I live light pollution is severe. That means narrowband filters for deep sky imaging. https://www.mauricetoet.nl/DeepSky/i-khbKmLt/A
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Re: VPort2 / Fault / Sync Target: Valid Alt/Az, RA/Dec, HA/Dec has not been received!"
Erkaslan Aygen
Dear Ray,
Thank you very much for your quick reply. Below is link to access the files. https://www.dropbox.com/s/lo9lxj6ggq9p6zo/AscomZip-Aygen-2021-10-16-165729.zip?dl=0 In the meantime, I did follow one of your recommendation to delete the ap.ini files and re-do the config "now" of the AP Driver. Regards, Aygen
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Re: VPort2 / Fault / Sync Target: Valid Alt/Az, RA/Dec, HA/Dec has not been received!"
Ray Gralak
Hi Aygen,
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That error message means that one or both sync coordinates (RA/Dec) have not been received, so the sync cannot be completed. Can you use APCC's Log Zipper utility to create a Zip file with your APCC and AP V2 ASCOM driver logs and post a link to the zip file? (And, please do not attach the zip file to your post as it will be too large). -Ray
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Re: Unexpected mount movement
Cheng-Yang Tan
There’s one other possibility: ground motion.
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On Friday, October 15, 2021, 10:09 PM, Bill Long <bill@...> wrote:
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Re: [ap-ug] WoW! Another APOD for Ignacio
Luca Marinelli
That’s a wonderfully detailed and deep view of the Helix!
Congratulations, Ignacio. Luca
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VPort2 / Fault / Sync Target: Valid Alt/Az, RA/Dec, HA/Dec has not been received!"
Erkaslan Aygen
Good morning,
Since a fews days I am experiencing an issue and I hope that someone could help me in solving it. I keep having the following error message every time I sending a command to my acquisition software (Voyager) to center a target : "VPort 2 / Fault / Sync target: Valid Alt/Az, HA/Dec has not been received" My equipment, in a nutshell :
Also, I have already reinstalled the APCC and the AP driver but the problem persists :( I would appreciate your support. Best regards, Aygen 
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Re: Fine tuning PHD2 settings for 1100 with Encoders
#Guiding
Andrew J
Hi Roland/Bruce.
The clouds parted for awhile tonight and I was able to capture the following unguided graph from PHD2. I ran calibration and then set the MinMo to 20.0 as suggested and let it run for about 5 mins with 1sec exposures.  This may be a bit hard to read, so I also uploaded the orginal to a public folder on Google Drive. Click Link. I also included in the shared folder the results from running Guiding Assistant and the PHD2 Logs. Let me know if there is anything else that would be helpful. Andrew
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Re: [ap-ug] WoW! Another APOD for Ignacio
Pete Lardizabal
Congrats Ignacio!!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 😎 Pete
On Oct 15, 2021, at 10:27 PM, Roland Christen via groups.io <chris1011@...> wrote:
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Re: WoW! Another APOD for Ignacio
weihaowang
On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 10:27 AM, Roland Christen wrote:
Yes, please. -- Homepage: http://www.asiaa.sinica.edu.tw/~whwang/ Astrobin gallery:
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Re: WoW! Another APOD for Ignacio
Sébastien Doré
Why are we even building new space telescopes ? Time to tell the space agencies !
Congratulations Ignacio ! 🤩
Sébastien
De : main@ap-gto.groups.io <main@ap-gto.groups.io> de la part de Roland Christen via groups.io <chris1011@...>
Envoyé : 15 octobre 2021 22:27 À : main@ap-gto.groups.io <main@ap-gto.groups.io>; main@ap-ug.groups.io <main@ap-ug.groups.io> Objet : [ap-gto] WoW! Another APOD for Ignacio https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap211014.html
With his 168mm refractor that I made from some one-off glass I had on hand. Maybe I should make some more of them?
Anyway, congratulations Ignacio. You are making good use of that scope.
Rolando
-- Roland Christen Astro-Physics
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Re: WoW! Another APOD for Ignacio
Congrats again Ignacio!
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Re: WoW! Another APOD for Ignacio
Wow! This one is incredible.
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Congrats Ignacio!
On Oct 15, 2021, at 7:27 PM, Roland Christen via groups.io <chris1011@...> wrote:
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Re: Unexpected mount movement
Bill Long
It was not likely the mount. Lets assume for a second it is not the mount, what would be next on the list?
Drawtube moving would move the star on the frame as well. Have you looked at that? If so how? Do you have a laser you can put in the drawtube and flex the drawtube to see how much play is in it?
From: main@ap-gto.groups.io <main@ap-gto.groups.io> on behalf of Alex <groups@...>
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2021 8:07 PM To: main@ap-gto.groups.io <main@ap-gto.groups.io> Subject: Re: [ap-gto] Unexpected mount movement Not a guiding issue as I'm not guiding. Since the absolute encoders didn't log they detected any slew or directed movement, then Ray's theory of slippage of the clutch makes sense. I'm not sure how the slipping happen. I feel no slippage when I manually
try and move the scope. The clutch knobs were tightened using a hex key. Maybe there was some movement elsewhere in the imaging train, but everything seems buttoned down. I imaged all night last night with no problems, so unless it crops up again, I'm assuming
it's just one of those mysteries.
Alex
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Re: Unexpected mount movement
Alex
Not a guiding issue as I'm not guiding. Since the absolute encoders didn't log they detected any slew or directed movement, then Ray's theory of slippage of the clutch makes sense. I'm not sure how the slipping happen. I feel no slippage when I manually try and move the scope. The clutch knobs were tightened using a hex key. Maybe there was some movement elsewhere in the imaging train, but everything seems buttoned down. I imaged all night last night with no problems, so unless it crops up again, I'm assuming it's just one of those mysteries.
Alex
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WoW! Another APOD for Ignacio
Roland Christen
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap211014.html
With his 168mm refractor that I made from some one-off glass I had on hand. Maybe I should make some more of them?
Anyway, congratulations Ignacio. You are making good use of that scope.
Rolando
-- Roland Christen Astro-Physics
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Re: Setting up NINA
ap@CaptivePhotons.com
Bruce Donzanti wrote:
NINA uses the computer clock, so assuming it is approximately right, if its sky atlas is wrong, it is likely the lat/long. Perhaps a missing minus sign? USA is + for lat, - for long (sorry if that's obvious).
Other things you can check:
Date and time the same in the mount (normally APCC Advanced Settings, Keep Mount time synced to PC time will do it).
Check the lat/long and see if they are right in all places -- I am still not completely sure how the sites in APCC and ASCOM differ but they should end up being the same).
Under NINA, Options, Equipment, Telescope there is a "Do not sync" which should be turned off.
ASCOM Driver Additional Conf settings check the Use RECAL for Sync's (should be on).
After you unpark at night, I would slew somewhere and plate solve so it can do a sync. You can do it in APPM (whether there is a model in use or not) under the Plate Solve and Recal, or do it in NINA with a slew and center command either in a sequence or from framing assistant. This should get APCC and NINA in sync (though they really should not have been far off to begin with). But this is usually for very very minor discrepancies, you seem like you have a major one.
Linwood
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Setting up NINA
Bruce Donzanti
I set up in NINA for the first time yesterday. I was asked to have NINA sync with the mount or vice vera. I synced NINA to the mount/telescope (AP1100 in park 4). It slewed fine during the day. Now trying it at night and after I unpark it, it slews but to the wrong location. I looked at a DSO (e.g., Bubble N) in the Sky Atlas. It came up but the coordinates and transit are wrong and, of course, it slewed to the wrong area of the sky. I am in a permanent setup and my location coordinates are correct. I tested using SkySafari and the scope slewed to the correct location. Any suggestions as to what am I doing wrong would be appreciated.
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Re: Testing SkyTrack continuous tracking with the Mach2
#Mach2GTO
Hi Brian,
I am working on documentation for the new release. There is an older video on my website that should help. First clear night, I will also make a quick start video. The most common trouble that users have is not setting up the site information correctly.
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Re: Testing SkyTrack continuous tracking with the Mach2
#Mach2GTO
Brent Boshart
I always check my executables before uploading with VirusTotal. There were no detections against all 67 anti-virus vendors. https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/0a36ba4d0811ca1c34e0757dcb82ea89cb646c1b998b971b5a9ecfbb8d5dd94d
False positives are quite frustrating as I usually have to contact a few anti-virus vendors to get them to whitelist my software to prevent the false positives. Thanks for that note Bryan.
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