Hi friends , I own a Mach 1 and on my good day buy a AP 1100 . I have a gtocp3 controller that works super fine , pls tell me if I should buy a new controller and why ? Thanks for your

Simply stunning, Jose. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an image of NGC 1398 before. Thanks to your work, it’s now one of my favorites. Karen

I may have a pier adapter for an AP 900GTO that rotates 360. Finding it is the problem… It is machined for an ATS pier. Mark

I am a new owner of a 1100AE. Off course, my first RCal/sync put the counter weight up rather than down. Otherwise, the scope was pointing correcting. Eventually, I was able to fix this but it

I find the new Meridian features very interesting. Most automation software does a pretty good just of flipping the mount now a days. So I ask what are the main advantages? Obviously, there is some

Hi Peter, this is the latest that I have seen regarding the yet-to-be-released version 5 keypad

hello very nice pictures from a very good site (we have also a new set up at El Sauce). a very good processing in my opinion. thanks for sharing. Didier REDIGER-LIZLOV​ De : main@ap-gto.groups.io

Many thanks Don and Joe for your replies! CS Joaquín

Those are really nice well done! Joe

Beautiful images Jose! Don Anderson

Dear group, would like to share with you some images that I processed in the last months. NGC 6752 : a big globular in Pavo (actually the third brightest after Omega Cen and 47Tuc) NGC 1398 : galaxy

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I fairly recently received an email announcing new keypad software. Unfortunately it appears that my keypad is too old to accept it. Can someone please redirect me to this information?

I may have missed what you have for a pier, but I have the RPA installed on a 10" schedule 20 pipe. The RPA and other 10" adapters are held to a pier with 6 screws, which go through the pier pipe.

Hi Jom You would probably need a combinationof flat surface adapters and / or flat pier plates. The rotary tables areslotted, so it should be pretty straightforward to attach the mount baseto the

They look pretty cool. But, how would you attach one to a pier and AP GOTO 900 or 1200 mount? Jim Get Outlook for iOS

You might try looking on eBay. I accumulateda pretty good collection of machine tooling from eBay over the years. Thiswas back when they did real auctions and not the "buy it now"system that they have

Thank you for the detailed response Rolando Regards Suresh

Here is my reliability list, FWIW. Starting with the most reliable and going down to the least reliable. 1. Real RS-232 cable between two real RS-232 ports. No USB involved. Greatest weakness of this

Rick, Aside from astronomy I am also a hobby machinist. Years ago I helped a fellow that built an observatory in a surplus ambulance. He had the same problem. What I suggested to him and he did