Thanks, all. I have been trying to make some precise polar alignment changes under a combination of fatigue, bad lighting, darkness and poor eyesight. I figured it out last night. Standing on the

Hi, Kerry You can try putting your AP mount in park position #1. Then place small carpenter's level on the dovetail saddle plate. As you turn the altitude adjustment knob you can see right away by

Hi Adrian, Could you possibly try a USB to Serial adapter that does NOT use the Prolific chipset. Our experience has shown numerous problems with adapters that use these chips, although

If I loosen the clamps on the sides of the fork and turn the Alt Adjustment knob I can feel that I am lifting the weight of the mount in one direction and I can feel that the mount is being allowed to

Hi Adrian, I can't think of a reason why that would happen so when you get a chance please upload a driver log file to the files section so we can take a look at it. Thanks, -Ray

Wait... "seeing it from the top". I'm not sure what that means. If you grip the knob with the palm of your hand (and afaict there is only one way to to do that) then turn clockwise I'm pretty sure

Pretty sure CCW lowers the altitude. The knob us just a big screw that pushes against the bottom of the RA. I'm curious on why you can't see the mount move. Do you have the altitude lock bolts

Hi, I just istalled new AP V2 Ascom driver (thx Ray) and now can not use AP1200. The problem is very strange! Simply mount stops tracking after 400-600 seconds imaging sesion. If I re-checked

Not really.

Can't you watch the mount move as you turn the knob?

Lowers Lefty loosie righty tighty....or Lefty lowers righty Raises. Kent Kirkley

OK, I am confused again. If you are standing on the north side of the AP1200 mount looking south and the altitude adjustment knob is below (seeing it from the top), turning the knob CCW raises or

Ray, What Kevin told me was the fac that the Sky 6 thinks when you connect that you are ready to control the telescope and track. It does this automatically. Unless the Sky 6 had a way to park and

Ray, Thanks..I was talking to Kevin Iversen from the UNC SKYWATCH program from Chapel Hill. He was at the observatory that evening and told me he saw the same thing as you did from the SKY 6 program.

Hi Mark, Mark wrote: The driver's just doing what it's been told to do but here are a few possibilities: 1) You could turn off tracking in the driver's panel after you connect (but that's not

Is there a way to prevent this from happening?

Hi Dean, After a little more research I found out that it is TheSky6 or (the ASCOM TeleAPI interface) that is the culprit! When you connect to the scope it turns on telescope tracking according to

Ray, Never mind my last question. I got the reply from Rolando. Dean

Rolando, Thanks for the advice. I have to wait to get up to the observatory before I can unplug it. Dean

Ray, Can I use the control box without the Hand controller since I am using the ASCOM Driver and the SKY 6 software? Dean