Nice job and wonderful detail! If you have an ASI294 and are using the flat ribbon-style USB cable that ZWO cameras tend to ship with, ditch it and replace it with a proper USB cable. I don't know

These CMOS cameras are pretty sensitive. This image has only 14-3 minute subs! I took some 5 minute subs but the 3 minute were better. I am trying to figure out some intermittent connection issues

The AP V2 ASCOM driver is a user level process and cannot cause windows to crash, but the USB/serial driver could a bad USB/serial or graphics driver could. SkyX uses Windows graphics card drivers.

I have an AP1200 GTOCP3 and I'm using the latest versions of TheSkyX (build 12304), ASCOM platform (6.4.1.2695) and AP ASCOM driver (5.20.09). I'm often seeing issues where TSX requests a slew but

There was something a few days ago about balance on a 1600. I believe someone offered that if the mount is significantly out of balancethere can be some issues with the gears or some such thing. I

There seems to be the belief that power cycling *the mount* will accomplish something here - it won't. Doing that is pointless. The mount's notion of where it is pointing in the sky after a power

I'm not sure if power cycling will do anything for you, but it won't affect the position of the mount as far as the servo is concerned. Best to speak with Howard here, he may have a better plan for

Rule # -1 is that before you do anything, please hang onto the scope. Rolando

I guess my real question is ---- Can I just power cycle the mount and the computer when I think that the mount is lost for any reason (but has not been moved) and go from there? I think that this

Hi Rolando, I’ve always wondered about your RULE #1 and that PARK-3is assured to be a completely “stable safe position”. Aren’t you assuming that the telescope is “counterweight

Plate solves can fail for a number of innocent reasons. 1. The odd cloud passing through. 2. Proximity to the Moon. 3. Local transient light trespass. 4. Low transparency. 5. Dew. 6. The odd police

Rule #1 - when attempting to balance a mount you must ALWAYS send the mount to Park3 position first because this is the only safe place where an unbalanced mount won't swing wild when clutches or

And what happens in the case of permanent locations when it is necessary to rebalance the mount due to a change in equipment? Is there any way that the mount, a Mach 1 my case, remember what position

In a permanent location, if the clutches are not loosened and the scope is not moved by hand, the mount itself will never be lost, even if the power goes away and comes back on later. The mount servo

Last night while doing an automated run I got an error message from CCDAP/Pinpoint that my plate solve was off by way too much - maybe 30 degrees. I immediately stopped the run. I've only been using

Thanks, I'll give that a try. DT

Hi David, There is one other possibility. Pointing and tracking rate correction settings are not saved between runs when you just double-clicking the "Pointing Corr" and "Rate Corr" status indicators

Hi Ray, On further testing, whenever I tell ACP or Maxim to Park the scope, APCC disables both pointing and tracking correction. When I unpark and slew away from the pole, they are not

Thanks Ray, Will keep a watch on what it is doing and let you know if I have further issues. DT

Well, that interesting. I did an uninstall on the "Virtual Serial Ports 8 (Eltima Software)" in Device Manager, rebooted and reinstalled APCC Virtual ports. The "Virtual Serial Ports 8 (Eltima