Hello, All this work by Roland and his team is great. I would have liked to have the keyboard at the same time as my Mach2 to test these routines from the start. But it does not matter because with

Good questions Don. You and I have similarcircumstances. I have an 1100 GTO with a CP4 and Keypad(both purchased in March, 2017), but the software has never been upgradedin either. I am not even sure

Hi All, After following this thread, I am still unsure of how this is done. Sounds like a revolutionary system. I have an AP1100 with CP4, so I think I just need to upgrade the CP4 firmware and buy

Thank you/ good to know it will work on my AP1100 and Mach 1 Appreciate the follow up information

I did a bunch of testing this spring with my 175 refractor/1600AE mount in our Hawaii observatory. Was able to get easily 20 minute exposures for many hours on the same object until it went too low in

Understood and I appreciate the apology. I look forward to learning more about this as I prefer to abandon my finicky PHD guiding.

It wasn't meant that way, and i apologize if it came across that way. This routine requires the keypad and cannot be easily done any other way. It would probably take me another year to turn it into

ok- I don't doubt that; your efforts and ingenuity is greatly appreciated; no reason to get snippy; a simple no would have sufficed to someone who bought two of your mounts or the suggestion that

It's a keypad routine. We spent a great deal of time developing this program for the keypad. I can't even count the number of hours that the three of us put into development (Charles - keypad

One solution to your short hand controller cord is to get an extension from AP. I have one I got about 10 years ago that adds 25' extension to the hand controller. It has the matching male and female

Roland My CP4 is about 8 ft above my laptop desk in my observatory. So, not sure the hand controller will reach that far down and I do not want to purchase APCC. Does that mean I am out of luck or

Beautiful! Rolando

Yes, this is a hand controller routine. Rolando

And it works very well on my 2017 vintage MachI. So well in fact, I'm done with guiding!

It's called APCC Pro. ;^)) Rolando

Roland Encoders are NOT required then...just a CP4 with updated firmware. I recognize this is not yet available. I also recall an earlier thread indicating the APCC Pro would be able to do the same,

Leon Anyway, that's my question.. thanks. SO what I usually get hung up is at initial start up, I go to park 2 then turn on the scope, then pull up APCC, then connect, then I go to park screen and try

This is great Roland. Can either function be used by outside programs such as SGP and Voyager? I had an ASA mount that had a similar function to method 1. It worked great but was not compatible with

Thank you as always.

Ray, Thank you for all the work you did to prepare this new version and make it available over the holiday weekend in addition to the other tech support that you did. Your efforts are truly