Hi Jeff, Sorry, apparently there was a yahoo outage a couple days ago and email postings stopped coming in for me, so I am just seeing your post. Norm is correct though. The pointing model counts on

On a side note, do you know if moving-primary mirror flop is predictable enough for the model to handle? Unfortunately, I do not know of any model that can take mirror flop into account...there are

drgert1@... writes: Thanks for the suggestion. It is something that we can look at in future keypad upgrades. Roland Christen ************************************** AOL now offers free

Hi Roland, Well, when you slew away from the sun / moon to a stellar target the tracking can switch to siderial again. As a rule one could ask that tracking speed is always set to the current goto

Hi AP, On a latest version AP900 the tracking rate is not updated when goto moon / sun is performed. I suggest this as an improvement to the otherwise good functionality of the hand paddle. Clear

d.branlund@... writes: i finally had a chance to run this design with the 160 telecompressor. It appears that this scope ahs a field cirvature of -546mm. With the TCC attached in the

drgert1@... writes: Well, that is an interesting idea. Most of the time, when you go to an object like that, you will be wanting to track it for a while, but not always. There are times that

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.