Hi Josep, If, when using the same cable, the bottom port works but the top port does not then unless someone else has a suggestion you may have to send the control box to Astro-Physics for

Hi Ray, Thanks for the explanation, I did try COM4 on the upper serial as well with no luck. Changing the serial driver chip did not fix this. Where can the problem be ? Something else I could try

Hi Josep, The COM port on the computer will not change if you disconnect the cable from the bottom port on the CP3 and connect it to the top port on the CP3. So, after you plug the same cable into

Hi John, Into which folder was PEMPro V3 installed? As I said previously, two Windows system environment variables (ProgramFiles and ProgramFiles(x86)) control the root folder where program files

Hi everyone, Happy new year, I am reporting back on my problem. I got the new serial driver chip (MAX238CNG) for my CP3 and installed it. The lower serial port seems to work ok, as I can find it at

Thanks, Ray. I uninstalled both v3 and v2.8. I reinstalled v3.00.27. It managed to keep the license. I then launched APCC v1.7.1.4 Standard. The only difference now is I don't have a PemPro button

John, 1. You should not install PEMPro V3 in a beta folder. If you did that uninstall and reinstall it in the correct folder. 2. The location of PEMPro and other applications is controlled by the

Morning, Happy New Year, (Retry #4 at Karen’s request. Our apologies – especially to Ray Gralak – if this comes through multiple times). What’s there to do on New Year’s Day? Update

I just had the same or a similar problem. The virtual ports in APCC were Com20, Com21 and Com22. The ASCOM Driver is configured to use Com20. Yesterday the ASCOM driver could not connect to APCC. The

Ray, Perhaps ACP is not shutting down perfectly cleanly. It is, however, right at the top of the shutdown script. I will give this added attention and watch it. I have the startup delays at 30s,

Thanks, Dale! I use BYEOS. It integrates well with Astrotortilla and supports multiple EOS cameras. In fact, the only reason I would move away from it is that it cannot do drift correction, hence my

Ray Thanks I will give SGP a trial test Bryan

Hi Peter, When you have the setup Celestron Edge HD 1100 + 0.7x reducer, then the focal length of your EDGE HD is changed to 280mm / 1960mm and not to 2030 as stated in your email ! Good luck and

Per your specs, it should be about 0.5 306*4.7/2030=0.47

If SGPro is reporting 4.1 arc-sec/pixel and you think it should be close to 0.5, then that is a bad plate solve. APPM did the right thing by rejecting the plate solve. -Ray Gralak Author of APCC

I had exactly the same experience with APPM, and actually to date have not been successful in generating a point model. My plate solves in SGP, fortunately, usually work or I would not be able to find

If your camera does not have an ASCOM driver then you will need an intermediary camera control application like MaximDL, SkyX Pro (with Camera add on), or Sequence Generator Pro. MaximDL and SkyX both

Thank you Ray. Looking forward to the new release of APCC. Roberto

Which app do you normally use to drive your camera and imaging sessions? Do you not use SGP, but something else? What does your normal imaging workflow involve? Because of the proprietary formats of

I downloaded trial versions of APCC-Pro and PinPoint from DC3. In the process of testing these, it appears that PinPoint can only use FIT files for plate solving. As I image mostly with a DSLR, this