Hi Roland, Thanks! That's great news. Clear Skies, Gert it out. Just http://www.aol.com.

Brad, If it is already loaded, just make sure it is activated. If not, just enable PLAY as you mention via the keypad. Leave PEMPro out of the loop at this point. Anthony.

Thanks, Ray and Norm. I was mostly just curious. I'm purely visual, and the GoTos (even with 2' - 3' of mirror flop) are generally good enough without any model. Cheers, -- Jeff.

with also just data it out. Just I just got my 900 last month. If I want to use the PEM that was loaded on my mount then all I need to do is go into PEM on the handcontroller and select PLAY or do I

Hi, Some time back Roland mentioned that the Mach1 PEC is pre loaded with data from lab measurements. At the time there was talk about this also being planned for the next 900/1200 mounts. Any update

p.honn@... writes: Yes, just press Play. PEMPro is for changing the data or creating new data or massaging it or whatever you wanna do. Rolando **************************************

drgert1@... writes: All 900/1200 mounts that have been shipped this year will have PEM data already loaded. You can use your free version of PemPro-AP to check it out. Just queery the mount

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