On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 10:10 PM, Greg Vaughn wrote: I used platesolve2 for a long time as my plate solver in SGP. As a result of a forum discussion (here as I remember) about using ASTAP, I have

On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 12:33 PM, Ray Gralak wrote: That is not normal. You normally should be able to get 2-3 points per minute.Ray, have you tried using SGPro and platesolve2? I did not get 2-3

SatelliteTracker was sold back to the original developer/owner and renamed to SkyTrack. SkyTrack is now under development with an ascom connect. $9.00 license I ordered SkyTrack today and have not

I think you should record a PE curve and turn on PEM. Nothing to lose, but possibly something to gain. Even though you're getting decent results now, why not use PEM to potentially improve things,

On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 08:55 PM, uncarollo2 <chris1011@...> wrote: I think you may want to not follow this advice and not heat your keypad. We are in contact with the manufacturer, and will advise

Yes, definitely record a PE curve and then turn PEM ON. You can record it with your main camera on your scope, and you will be accurate, even at your short focal length. Don't record the pE curve with

Roland and Ray will certainly give you the best and most useful answers but I'll throw in my two cents because I am in a sharing mood right now. On lights of exceptionally-bad seeing, I have

I'm successfully using APPM in the early evening to map 23 points or so. I have to say, not having the autoguider makes everything so much more reliable and fast. There's no need to "plate solve

I think you may want to not follow this advice and not heat your keypad. We are in contact with the manufacturer, and will advise shortly what their recommended fix is for the keypad. Rolando

Joe, I too had to clean a TV remote control with this problem. Thanks for the photo. There with the AP keypad I went there quiet. I'm not sure I have exceeded 95 °F (35 °C). It was not a thermal

Here is another vote for the OneStep solution.

Dominique, Don’t want to scare anybody about this problem – but I would be VERY careful – with using a hair dryer on your expensive AP Keypad. If it helps momentarily by cooking the

Wow, Jian. That’s a really pleasing image. Congratulations! Karen C AP

Hi, It may only be part postponed,but if they were oily structures stuck on contacts and preventing the activation of the button, one could think that a dose of heat could thin the thing. So with the

Someone used the cool OnStep project to convert an AP400 - might give you some ideas: https://onstep.groups.io/g/main/topic/onstep_on_astro_physics_ap400/26511793 Michael Fulbright

Stepper motors are pretty easy to find and not expensive.

AP-Support: As an after thought about Keypad’s buttons eventually becoming too oily and losing their circuit board pad contact, may I suggest that AP Tech Support, with their usual excellent

You would probably have to replace the motors. Frank

Hi Joe, Thank you for the link to the related topic, actually the problem could be of this nature, since since 2011 I used this keypad in a common way and it has, depending on the period, lived

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