Wayne, Congratulations on getting some clear skies! I was hoping for another night tonight myself, but alas Vermont weather doesn't cooperate often. I found the same as you, that the mount

Hi Rolando, In looking at my graph without guiding input, the center of my RA trace drifted around 6.25 arc seconds in 11 minutes (in RA). In DEC, the trace shows only about 3.75 arc seconds of

Do you have any applications connected at the time? It could be that one of them is setting the rate back to sidereal. Any slews will also reset to rate to sidereal (APJog, for instance issues

Hi Wayne, Latitude and Longitude can only be set one time after each power cycle. If there was no site defined the lat/long might default to 0. Anyway, once the mount is initialized you cannot

No, it doesn’t matter and it is easy to test. 1. Run APCC and the driver and enable sidereal tracking. 2. On APCC's Rate Settings tab change the tracking rate to Lunar and click "Set Now". 3.

HI Wayne, my issue was a little different. It had to do with V2 reporting a different coordinate than the direction the mount was pointing. I believe it was due to a corrupt V2 installation. Once

Taken on and off between the clouds over the Jan and Feb new moon period. https://www.astrobin.com/op6tmp/0/ for tech details https://www.astrobin.com/full/op6tmp/0/ higher res. Mount:

Halleluiah - The skies opened up enough to run the Mach2, albeit with a very bright Moon in the middle of the sky area I can see! It was one of 4 new pieces of gear I was hoping to actually try after

Found it – thanks! Hopefully will try again tonight Sent from Mail for Windows 10

A little more digging, and I think maybe my problem is that I had APCC and the ASCOM driver up at the same time. I only set it in ASCOM and not in APCC. Will the two programs fight over Tracking

You can find the setting here: https://www.gralak.com/apdriver/help/additional_configuration_setti.htm Because of PHD2 possibly *causing* a deadlock I do recommend making sure to uncheck "Synchronous

Wayne, Don't believe that! One of the PHD2 devs tried to provide an example but it turned out to be a faulty test. If PHD2 or any other application is using multithreaded operations the process has

Hi Mikko, If in SGPro you plate solved and synched, that is in fact recalibrating (RCAL). -Ray Gralak Author of APCC (Astro-Physics Command Center):

Didn't Roland post his PhD2 settings last year after he got it working with the Mach2? I've been looking and can't find it. Thanks, Charles Sent from mobile device.

Ok will do - thanks!

Hi Wayne I think you may be better off posting this to the PHD group. https://openphdguiding.org/getting-help/ -- Brian Brian Valente portfolio brianvalentephotography.com

Had a really good night with the Mach2 under clear but moonlit skies. PHD2 ran reasonable well with default settings, but ran into a couple issues. First, it warned me I should disable Synchronous

I was trying to do some EAA on the moon over the weekend with my Mach1, and I found that anytime I clicked the Lunar Tracking button in the ASCOM driver, it would reset back to Sidereal after a few