Hi Ray, cool concept.!!! and much easier to implement as a tweak as you go. If you can keep track of alt-az internally for the model you're probably good. Best part is that you could have two

Ray -- One of the things I always hated about Meade's AutoStar was that it was so complicated that you never quite knew what it was doing. From what I've read online, the same thing could be said

It is my understanding that the AP mounts are rated for a photographic load. That much weight at a long FL may be pushing the boundaries.

writes: Sorry to be entering this discussion so late. I have been out with the flu for the last 5 days. First, there is nothing in particular you need to do to start the mount. Simply hook up

A 'painless' Pointing Model would be valuable. Improvement, even improving upon soething nearly perfict already is worth the effort. Just like PEMPro is painless and valuable. I await A-P's

This sounds very good. A model that just happens if you want it to. Bryan collection of target. If it is (or RCAL). A through more you add a an external model that

Yes, that would be nice! Dave

Hi Paul, First you would enable a mode in the hand box that will enable the collection of points and build a model from them. You then slew to your first target. If it is not centered you center the

Paul -- I don't think that a pointing model would be useful in the field. However, for a permanently mounted scope, it might be worth doing the 20 - 50 points once. It should also be noted that

Hey gang, maybe I'm just missing something here from the visual users. I occasionally use my mount for visual usually after an imaging session and remove the camera and ya its a hassle to drag out a

Just to be clear: I meant with the AP800 ... the ME doesn't have a polar alignment scope. Dave

Bryan: I certainly wasn't trying to belittle anyone's effort to improve their pointing. I have an older AP800 mount but usually use my Paramount ME when I go portable (although it is usually in my

Hello all, I see on the AP website that the AP900 can carry 12-14 inch Ritchey-Chretiens. Is the AP900 still stable for photography with the 14 inch load (estimated 70 lbs)? Regards, Brian C.

John, Here it is: http://www.astromart.com/classifieds/details.asp?classified_id=485822 ... Anthony. model estimated in there is a what are Or is

I do visual work and find a pointing model to be very useful for improving accuracy with a less than perfectly aligned AP900. It has nothing to do with bragging rights and everything to do with

Roland, Would you please comment on the issue of power supply/scope power up? Is it advisable to power up the scope only after the power supply has been powered up? I had not heard of this procedure

You can still use TPoint with your scope with a computer ... you do not need to have a pointing model in your hand-controller. And if you are doing visual work only, it is unlikely that you would need

Hi all, New to the group and AP :) Hopefully will be taking delivery of a spanking new AP900 within the week, and I'm looking to get some storage cases for it. I'm trying to get ahead of the game

Rob -- I have an AP1200GTO in a 10' TI dome. I used to spend hours drift aligning my fork mounts, but I've never done anything more than a quick and dirty alignment using the polar scope with the

Thanks for the heads-up Anthony - that wasn't there when I looked last night. Message sent :) young lady production