As noted, rodents are a potential problem. But please don't use glue traps. They are horribly indiscriminate and will kill creatures that will happily eat mice, or a least won't bother your equipment.

Resolved this problem. The Gerd Neumann ships with a 10mm adapter, and the inside of that adapter was too reflective/shiny. I flocked it with some flocking paper and the problem is resolved.

Will you have someone nearby to assist with troubleshooting and repairs? No such thing as autonomous. If it can fail, it will. Speaking from experience. jg

Mouse traps. Lots of mouse traps. ;^) Rolando

Rat killing equipment and stainless braided hoses for the cables. -- benoit

My new observatory in NM is almost ready and I hope to drive there in October with my equipment to set it up. I have a mount (1100GTO-AEL) and telescope, plus a PC/monitor to control it remotely, and

Bryan, Thank you for that additional bit of information. Appreciate it. Phillip

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HI, Just got my CP4, but when I click on the links on the AP website, nothing happens. No downloads. Am I missing something? Also I never got my email with the trial info? Tom

I wonder if there is a way to make APCC slew while keeping the telescope pointing upward. If, during slew, the scope points downward there is more stress on the mirror, and it may tend to move more

Phillip In tinkering with the MboxV2 some more, it appears I do not have to connect to the box. It seems that APPC Pro looks for the box on initialization and displays the info in the Pointing Model

Thank you, Ray. Will the smaller Mbox version work (cheaper) or does it necessarily have to be the V2? https://www.astromi.ch/product/mbox/ Thanks again,

Hi Bryan, Thank you for letting me know APCC does work with MBoxV2. I just downloaded what may be a newer version. My equipment is at another location so I will try connecting in the GPS tab. I'm not

The best guess then is that your camera has significant readout noise or quantization noise. -- benoit groups.io <chris1011@...> wrote:

It is rare that I would have that much of a temperature change after running a model. That would probably only happen in the winter. -- Dean Jacobsen http://astrophoto.net/wp/ Image Gallery -

Phillip Yes, I have had the MboxV2 for about 8 months. The biggest challenge is remembering to Connect in the GPS tab. I downloaded and installed the Astromi.ch Windows app which found the box,

The APPC-Pro manual says changes to the model can become important if the temperature change is above 15 degrees C. (See screenshot of page 188). Bryan

Hello, My question is anyone using APCC and MBoxV2 successfully, meaning the data from MBoxV2 is connected to APCC and the data from MBoxV2 is being received in APCC? Thank you, Phillip

Ray, For some reason, the temperature entry box for the pointing model has disappeared. I thought maybe updating to the latest version would fix it, but unfortunately it hasn't. The pressure box IS

Also, I was just wondering if in the interim I can manually update the temperature and then have the tracking rate model adjusted in real time. -- Dean Jacobsen http://astrophoto.net/wp/ Image