Ray I am interested in this thread as I do have problems from "power off after park then power on and initialise" status. At one time I used to just leave the power on and park but as Roland

Hi Mal, I just got a new one to replace my old style. The new one is 5/16" thick. I hope that helps. Bye for now, Dr. hoglan in calif.

...but they're well worth the wait.... it in November then that is FAST FAST FAST been on scope yet Behalf Of the order left it Great rates starting at 1¢/min. > > >

Sorry Figured Jan 2000 since that is when I went on the list

Correction...Since 1999. MailYahoo <MailYahoo@...> wrote: If you can order one now and get it in November then that is FAST FAST FAST Usually it is about a 2.5 year wait for the mount

If you can order one now and get it in November then that is FAST FAST FAST Usually it is about a 2.5 year wait for the mount and people have been on the list since 2000 and still have not had a

I called AP today as was told that Ancortes and Company Seven were the two supliers. Ancortes said there were no more slots for them to order the AP1200 this year. Company Seven said they had about

On the evening of April 8, 2006 I was doing some further testing of my system, built around the AP900 and took an image of ngc3953. I only got around to working on the image a week later

If the pointing error is causing grief for The Sky users, you can always use the ASCOM driver with The Sky as well..... Ajai

Hi Ajai, Roland and others, Ajai, I reported to you that the RA motor continue to run after slew completion (both axes) not during the time DEC still going to its parked position. Anyway, your

It used to be worse. Due to the expanded facilities at AP, the wait and production time for mounts is less than it used to be. Refractors-scopes is a different story. Right now it is something like

Hi Keith, Press F1 while on the Park/Rate page of PulseGuide and it explains why the button is grayed at times. The mount is not unparked unless you answer yes in the initialize dialog. be I

Hi Larry, I use a program called Dimension 4, which uses NTP (Network Time Protocol) to update the time very accurately from any one of many NTP servers in the Internet. This program can be

Hi Ray, Yes, I have seen the initialize box. But I also noticed that the "Unpark" button is grayed while the Park button remains ungrayed. This made me wonder if the scope is automatically unparked

Hi Ray, How do you set your PC clock so accurately? Larry

Hi Mark, I always initialize my mount with PulseGuide because it pops up the options that it is about to set and gives me a chance to change something (like PEM on/off or slew speed) before

Marj -- Excellent. I've had the flu for the last couple of days, and with nothing else to do and sheer boredom setting in, I found myself re-reading the Keypad manual. There is actually an oblique

Ray, since I use TheSky as well as pulseguide, do you have a suggestion on which to start and connect first? Thanks, Mark

Hi Robin, I've finally received my 900 and would like to try to use my laptop with it. I was wondering if you've had any success yet with the IO Gear Serial to Bluetooth wireless adaptor yet? I

That does not look like enough mount for that big scope. Please sell me the 900 and you can get on the 1200 list :) Enjoy the birthday present.