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A query about AP mounts / APCC & Indi #APCC

First of all, I'd like to start by saying I don't want to stir up a hornets nest with this post, I manage a school observatory in Australia. We have two AP1100 mounts, connected via APCC/ASCOM to

By David Trappett · #71908 ·

Re: [ap-ug] Comet Neowise

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 😎 Pete

By Pete Lardizabal · #71907 ·

Re: Comet Neowise

Yes, the very faint streaks are caused by stars that moved with respect to the comet during that 1/2 hour period. The individual LRGB exposures were median combined which suppressed the star streaks

By Roland Christen · #71906 ·

Re: Comet Neowise

Roland, Nice picture of the comet. Are the light streaks at about a 45 degree angle stars? Eric

By Eric Claeys · #71905 ·

Re: [ap-ug] Comet Neowise

They keep getting better I like that the best of all I’ve seen thusfar “Corrected” by my iPhone

By Richard Crisp · #71904 ·

Re: M20 First light with ZWO ASI2600

Thanks Ecki.

By Robert Chozick <rchozick@...> · #71903 ·

Re: Comet Neowise

Brilliant Andrea and thanks so much for that “breadcrumb” trail, the option “save data for later use” escaped me, now back on track, Glad you were enjoying your new Mach2! Thanks again,

By DFisch · #71902 ·

Re: Comet Neowise

Tom, I can't check here but it is something I realized while imaging. First you connect to the NASA site and set the query as illustrated in the manual. Of course you need to select the right object

By Andrea Lucchetti · #71901 ·

Re: M20 First light with ZWO ASI2600

Nice image with lots of detail, Robert. Ecki

By Eckhard Völcker · #71900 ·

Re: Comet Neowise

Andrea as a neophyte I would love to hear more of your prelim “tracking plan” workflow. Tom Fischer, INdy -- TJF MOBILE

By DFisch · #71899 ·

Re: Comet Neowise

Great image. APCC/ Horizons is not that complex to use in a field set up, in my opinion. I have been able to use it last week with my mach2, and it was the first time I powered up the mount :-) You do

By Andrea Lucchetti · #71898 ·

Re: Comet Neowise

A remarkable image indeed! Perhaps Roland can use his maths skills to calculate the width of the small outgassing core at the approx. distance of 100ish million miles distance from us. Should be

By Chris Carlton · #71897 ·

Re: Comet Neowise

Simply amazing!!! Stuart Heggie http://www.stuartheggie.com/ -- Stuart http://www.astrofoto.ca/stuartheggie/

By Stuart · #71896 ·

Re: [ap-ug] Comet Neowise

That is an amazing image! The most detailed i’ve seen! Marc Walk

By marc walk · #71895 ·

Comet Neowise

https://www.astrobin.com/full/xjomop/0/ Imaged with the 160EDF refractor on the Mach2 mount. The comet head was tracked using the Keypad Drift Model. I took one data point on the comet's nucleus (a 4

By Roland Christen · #71894 ·

Re: ASCOM 6.5 released, upgrade or not?

Pierre is right. I updated the ZWO ASCOM driver when I loaded software on a new computer in May 2020 but it appears that ZWO, wisely, went back to ASCOM 6.4 a couple of weeks later. I will simply

By Luca Marinelli · #71893 ·

Re: MACH1 GTO Merdian Flip #Keypad

Ah, terrific. I had read the meridian delay instructions quite carefully in the GTOCP4 and Keypad manuals, and how it was achieved internally and surmised that probably it was something overriding the

By Ken Murfitt · #71892 ·

Re: MACH1 GTO Merdian Flip #Keypad

Whenever the keypad is set to EXT mode, it is advisable to always use the external app to control the mount, and that includes setting Meridian delay. In EXT you are initializing the mount via an

By Roland Christen · #71891 ·

Re: MACH1 GTO Merdian Flip #Keypad

Any idea when the keypad revision will be available to the masses? 3-6 months? Thanks, in advance, Luke

By Luke Leege · #71890 ·

Re: MACH1 GTO Merdian Flip #Keypad

Hi Ken, I’m pretty sure I know exactly what is wrong. The keypad performs the meridian delay by “fooling” the clock in the GTOCPx control box. The driver is probably undoing the

By Howard Hedlund · #71889 ·

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