Sweet! Easy fix.

This morning I changed the Ethernet cable and all is well. It was a good night to have things go kaput with the humidity being what it was/is here in AZ at the moment. A very dewy night.

He already said he did that.......

It’s been happening since a week , somehow i first connect to phd and then all else connects . Try to re start ur laptop Suresh

Do you use APCC?

Hi Bill, I am off to bed tonight. I am going to try it again tomorrow and see in the daylight if I can find anything. I am going to change the Ethernet cable as that is really the last external

Or.... You have a cable that failed. If you are using a Mach 1 with CP4 and you are not using Ethernet... that would not be a wise decision. Still, give me a shout and we can poke at it. 🙂

I should add for the community that this sounds like a problem with user context in Windows. Meaning, you have something running in admin mode and standard user mode. At any rate it isnt hard to fix.

You are welcome to call me and I can help. Hit me offline from the list at bill@... and if you have TeamViewer or AnyDesk I can help you solve it.

I had an odd experience tonight. My Mach 1 just disconnected for some unknown reason and I cannot get it connected again. The light is showing red. I tried connecting through both SkyX and Maxim to

Roland !!, Nice to know you use phd 2 for guiding , it’s a vastly improved one now . The only other I’ve used is maxim dl however the former is more user friendly

OnLogic ML100G-50 or ML100G-51. Intel Whiskey Lake CPU that is quite powerful for its 15W TDP. Throw 16GB of RAM and a 1TB M.2 SSD in there and you have a good system that will handily run a DSO

Hi Barry we opted for a fanless pc from onlogic.com our remote observatory provider (Obstech) recommended fanless. you can configure it to suit your needs and budget. the build quality seems

Ethernet, USB and RS-232 is enough – no need for WiFi. Don’t need a high end CPU, but something midrange would likely make everything run a bit smoother – a lot of processes going between roof

I ordered one. Thanks Robert

I just looked it up and now they sell the circle projection attachment Robert

You can still get the circle pattern while they are in stock: https://agenaastro.com/howie-glatter-holographic-attachment-concentric-circle-pattern.html

Wayne did you also adjust the primary? Do you have an attachment to project a grid or circle on the wall? I bought a focuser tilt adjustment ring so I could do the full laser collimation procedure

We'll see if my recent tip tilt adjustment solves my issues, once it clears here. That may have been the problem the whole time.

Hi Bill, I just checked my AGO 12.5” iDK with laser collimator and Tak scope yesterday. Following Dave Tandy’s collimating video, things looked good to my eye. Beam was within the center target of