Thanks George. Are these screws down there something customers should never touch? Are they for adjusting the internal components of the gearbox? Peter ---In ap-gto@..., <george@...> wrote : Peter,

Peter, They simply prevent dust from entering the gearbox while allowing access to the screws within. Regards, George George Whitney Astro-Physics, Inc. Phone: 815-282-1513 Email:

Hi John, I am not planning on upgrading to new gearbox. I was curious what the two placeholder 5/16"-24 screws are for on the original A-P1100 mount. One small advantage of my PoleMaster bracket is I

That's great news! I met with the rep at NEAF who tried to sell me on something that sits in the threads on A-Ps 1100 there with A-Ps permission of course. I told him no way it has to thread in and

Hi Ray, I contacted FocusMax's author and there's a bug in the latest release for relative focusers. He's sending me a beta fix to try. Thanks Bruce

Peter I talked to a guy from the company and was told AP adapters are forthcoming; perhaps by the end of June. Says it will mount in the large threaded hole on the front of the dec.

I meant 5/16"-24 panhead placeholder screws (not 3/8"). Sorry about the confusion. Peter ---In ap-gto@..., <pnagy@...> wrote : I own a wonderful A-P1100GTO mount and I have been pretty successful

I own a wonderful A-P1100GTO mount and I have been pretty successful imaging with this mount. I have a question. What are these two 3/8"-24 panhead bolts used for on both RA and Dec axes gearboxes?

Be sure to check out the video at the link below! I think you will enjoy it. Roland discusses new products and features with Dennis DiCicco of Sky & Telescope magazine: · 17” f8

Hi Joe, Most SSDs have extra redundancy (especially Intel SSDs), so wear and tear is usually not a factor with any of the Tier 1 SSD manufacturers (e.g. Samsung, Intel, Micron, SanDisk, etc.) I've

Hi Bruce, You don't say which version of the driver and which control box you are using but te Astro-Physics focuser is a relative focuser. There is no absolute positioning, thus the error

I've updated FocusMax to the latest version and focusing no longer works. It's returning this error in the log. ASCOM V2 AstroPhysics GTO Driver Error -2147220480: Property Position is not implemented

Thanks Ray – that is good to know. I too use an SSD on one observatory laptop. From reading some web articles, the down side is that“average “ quality SSD’s (perhaps older ones),

Hi, Finally RESOLVED – the Random TeamViewer (versions 8, 9, 10, 11)disconnections to on-site, LOCAL observatory. Just a few new findings I wanted to mention, for thoseusing TeamViewer for a

Joe, I don’t ever "clean" the registry. Cleaning to me was more one of defragmentation and compaction of the registry to restore performance. However I don't feel that’s needed since I started

No Ray, I do NOT assume that only Microsoft causes Registryissues – just that they should be causing the least number of them, since theyhave had decades of practice improving their Windows

Hi Joe, I think you may be assuming that all registry issues were caused by Microsoft and not by third-party applications and hardware driver installations. The registry is just a database. I do not

You are correct I meant 1x....(Too much coffee today!)

Surely it says 1x not 1 sec so it is the same as setting it to sidereal? Stuart -- Stuart Heggie http://www.stuartheggie.com/featured.html

According to the AP1200 manual, you should set the guiding rate at 1 sec and not Sidereal rate when doing a PEM run. Why is that? Wouldn't that cause more unnecessary corrections? Thanks, Bob