Hello John, I have used both in our club's observatory with a C14. Do you like to tinker and tweak? Are you on a really tight budget? If you answer no, the 1200 is a superior experience in every

Hi John, Those that have the Titan talk highly of them, but of course so do those of us with AP mounts :) My biggest concern with the Titan would be the Gemini electronics. I had the Gemini with a

If push came to shve I'd have to agree, an AP1200 for sure, but I am biased. Rick

John wrote: John, In my opinion this one is a no-brainer. An AP1200GTO is great choice. But I also don't think this forum is exactly unbiased either <g> Bill

Hi everyone, If you haven't been to our main web page lately, you may not realize that we have a limited number of our 3600GTO mounts available for direct purchase from our current production run.

Hi everyone, Just wanted to let you know that we are now taking pre-orders for the TeleVue 17mm and 6mm Ethos eyepieces. We anticipate having these available to ship sometime after the first of the

Hello all, I'm a new member to the group & here's the deal. SWMBO has given me the go ahead for a new mount provided I divest myself of my venerable Vixen GP with a set of MT-1's & my Warped LXD55

Werner, The manual clearly states to use a rubber mallot to make tension adjustments to the worm, not your head! I'd guess though, that without first loosing the required fasteners, your attempt to

Hello, My new AP 1200 is mounted on a permanent pier and the R.A. motor housing is at the same altitude as my forehead when I stand next to my mount. Yesterday I checked the pier adapter knobs and I

Bien sur, Roland, et merci. That's what I eventually figured you were doing. Joe

Hmmmm, this old fart wonders if you will use the new Gear Cutting Method on the AP1200s just now entering production? We always apply new techniques to our products. They evolve, along with our

I would have started by aligning the finder to the OTA using an "illuminated cross hair eyepiece", until these two were parallel, and then go through your procedure to make the OTA/finder

Hey Joe, All you have to do is get the finder scope orthogonal at the very first. You don't need to waste time with a few tries prior to that. I believe Roland covers this in one of his more recent

Of course - NOW I see it - thanks Chuck. In essence, adjusting the "finder set screws" to make it orthogonal, is just like adding shims to the OTA for the same reason. So, if I can't get the

Hey Joe, The concept you should know here is that the OTA doesn't need to be orthogonal. You only need the finder scope orthogonal to the mount (not the OTA) in order to polar align the mount's RA

Hi Rick, In the Orthogonally section of the latest GTO Keypad manual, it states that: "especially in GEM mounts, a non-orthogonal mount will cause errors in ANY routine that uses the scope for

Happy to say the serial cable and KeySpan adapter I ordered from AP worked perfectly with my AP900 GTO. I have a new laptop running Vista and TheSky v6. Connecting to the mount went smoothly. I

I am glad Roland brought up using a finder. The whole point of the meridian flip method is to polar align the mount. Making the optics perfectly orthogonal is secondary and unnecessary. It might

Hi Rolando, I too was a bit confused, but let that slip. Now I am really confused. I understand your method and the explanation is clear, but I don't get the "initial conditions". Was the main

The production worm on this 3600 mount is made with a new gear cutting method that we developed here after much testing, and it produced a raw periodic error of under 2 arc seconds without PEM in a 5