Think I'm slowly getting a grip on the main issue here. If I'm slewing the scope from within SGP then there is no delay - the scope and dome move together in beautiful harmony. But once an outside

So heres what the dome looks like now with the new APPM ver. It all works and probably won't get any fails. What I would really, really like is to find out who/how can get the dome to move in time

Hi Rowland - Hope you didn't lose any sleep over this issue! Thanks for the additional idea and detailed pictures - I just checked and all the screws there were rock-solid tight. So that's not

You can buy a grease kit from Astro-Physics.

Hi I would like to re-grease my old 900 gto mount. Is this sort of grease available, i live in

Disregard, found Howards comments regarding ASCOM platform 6.5. Thought I was losing my mind. Mike

Ray, Is my understanding on this whole process more or less correct?: as soon as I hit "Start" for the APPM run that first RA/Dec (Zenith) is sent to SGP (assuming I'm using SGP for dome

Hi, Last month I got notified for ordering a Mach2GTO. While I am waiting for the delivery, I also started to think about how to adapt it to a tripod. Currently I have two tripods for TAK EM-400. So I

Hello, I am experiencing an issue with plate solving in the APCC APPM tool that I can't seem to track down. As an example. If I slew the scope to Sculptor galaxy and take an image, the galaxy is very

Thanks Ray, I put it in Passive Mode and it does work fine. The only thing being that the scope will finish its slew before the dome moves at all...but at least it moves in the right direction when it

Also, APPM sends the telescope's destination RA/Dec to the dome *once*. It is important that your dome driver can translate that into the correct Azimuth coordinate to which to move. If it cannot do

Tony, The only change I made was to check if the Dome is slewing according to the driver to which APPM is connected. APPM will wait until the driver says the Dome is done slewing. If the driver

Okay, so heres whats happening. When the Dark Frame was enabled it froze. So I disabled that feature. Now, when I run APPM the scope goes to Zenith as per normal and the status remains "Settling" but

Don't worry about APPM taking a dark frame. The scope could be slewing while taking the dark frame. It is done this way to save time. -Ray Gralak Author of PEMPro Author of APCC (Astro-Physics

Hi Ray, Gave it a go but it basically failed when it started to take the dark frame. I will try it without the dark frame enabled.

Nice quick fix there Ray! 🙂 From: main@ap-gto.groups.io <main@ap-gto.groups.io> on behalf of Ray Gralak <groups3@...> Sent: Sunday, October 4, 2020 5:03 PM To: main@ap-gto.groups.io

Hi Dale, The driver does cache many of the commands. However, what can slow the driver down is formatting the text and writing to the log file, especially on devices with slow disk write speeds. That

Hi Tony, I didn't realize the dome might stop and start slewing multiple times like in your video. I made a slight tweak to APPM to check dome slewing status in the settling state. If APPM sees the

I have tried active dome control with the same issue...the camera starts taking an image while the dome is still slewing. I always have the Nexdome driver selected...but IOT slave the mount to the

As another data point in this vein, we set NINA to poll drivers every 2 seconds by default. We found that some older hardware and/or their drivers have a tough time dealing with more frequent polling;