The clutches don't really do anything, so you can leave them tight or loose, as you wish. Rolando

Fritz, Good luck trying to be mobile with 50,000,000 on a very limited number of roads in a very restricted zone. Visualize trying to get to Woodstock and add a couple zeros! Regards,

A keypad press can also do this without being logged. But as I said, after looking at the code the only way that the declination would be made negative is by changing side-of-pier. You should do

Hello group, As I'm getting ready for first light test of the new Mach1, I wonder if there are any safety recommendations for transporting the case to remote site, i.e. is recommended to tighten the

Yes it is, but we AP owners get a free copy that you have to use the right installer for so you can provide your AP key.

Bill PEMPro is a CCDWARE product. http://ccdware.com/downloads/ Bryan

Hi Yves, The ":NS#" command swaps N/S directions. The driver normalizes the direction when that option is selected so that Dec autoguider moves are always normalized based on pier side. However, I

Hey where can I find the AP installer. I have my key, but cannot seem to find my CD....

Yes, that option. Internal Dec direction could be changed by sending a command to the mount or by clicking a button in the driver's UI. Perhaps it is better to not turn off "recommended"

Geoff: I like your M42 image. I would appreciate if you can clarify the following. Your exposures where?: R = 22@20s or 22@150s G = 22@150s or 22@20s B = 12@250s L = 20@600s Thanks, Héctor R.

Ahhh... I missed that before. Thanks, Ray. --- Kerry

If that's so, something misconfigured the dec direction value in the driver. There is an option in the driver to configure that after the first slew. If you had that misconfigured then the value could

Then I'm not sure I understand your logs. Why would ACP send a positive rate one night, and a negative the next? -Ray Gralak Author of APCC (Astro-Physics Command Center):