Benoit is right. Roland, you should try averaging the six ten minute exposures. The S/N will be higher, and the result should look closer to the single 60-minute image. -Ray Gralak Author of APCC

Hi Marcelo, It depends on your equipment. If you don't change anything over the entire year, the model will provide much better pointing and tracking accuracy then without a model. However,

Thanks Ray! -- Dean Jacobsen http://astrophoto.net/wp/ Image Gallery - http://astrophoto.net/wp/image-gallery/ Astrobin - https://www.astrobin.com/users/deanjacobsen/

Hi Dean, I haven't tried a color camera, but to keep memory utilization down, whatever camera application used should be configured to prevent debayering the raw camera data into a FITS image with

Liam et al, Re Dome heat plumes. I tried A/C in my domed obs and I was not very satisfied with the result. It seemed the cold air inside the dome still was interacting with the external air causing

Based upon what Bill Long and others have said it looks like modeling even with a non-permanent pier is really something to consider. Too bad I let the discount period lapse on getting APCCPro as I

It doesn't have an ASCOM Observing Conditions driver, so no.

No, the model in the CP4.

What? If you mean the Model in the hand pad, No. Konstantin

Are focuser temperature probes supported like to Moonlite NightCrawlers? Tom

Yes we did. :-) And it is on the “to do” list, but haven’t been able to get out to the observatory yet. I will pester you if I can’t figure it out. -- Dean

Dean i realize we may have talked about this a few posts ago :) I do think your skybox can generate a boltwood file, you just need to figure out how to store that to an accessible folder for your

Yes, I put up a Sky Alert box when we installed the roof system. It is on our network as an Ethernet device. I haven’t been able to test whether I can connect up with it through ASCOM yet because

Hi, Is this now available?

FYI if you are at a shared remote obs they often have a boltwood file available from their environmental sensors that is available for use, and that also work for APPM this is what we use at Obstech

Thanks for confirming.

Thanks Bill and Brian. This is something that I want to incorporate then. We get pretty significant temperature changes throughout the night so keeping track of the difference between when the model

Dean Ray is probably best to answer, but i've had long talks with him on this and yes, MGBox (or something similar) provides updated temperatures, and the APPM modeling takes the temperature into

Yes there is an environment poll that APCC does. The sensor provided with the Pegasus Ultimate Powerbox v2 and Powerbox Advance (cheaper) works perfectly with APCC.

If one were to employ a MGBox does the software adjust or update the model in real time as the temperature changes, and, if so, are these adjustments to the model updated into the tracking rate