PS. I am using a Pegasus Astro Powerbox which has real-time temp and humidity monitoring. I enter the atmospheric pressure manually.

Some clarification: 1) ASCOM Platform v6.4SP1 is okay to still use. 2) ASCOM Platform v6.5 had a serious bug in the Transform class that would cause APPM to produce bad models. 3) You can now

Ray had noted that we should use v6.5SP1 but Karen’s email references v6.4SP1. Should we not use any version of 6.5 at this time?

Please contact George on Monday and he will help you install the encoder personality into your CP4. Rolando

Thanks for the response Ray! I am using a fairly well sorted and tied down set-up. I have a 120 mm refractor, so no mirror issues as of now. As for the rest of the randomness, who knows. I am not

Fix the personality, did you contact AP to do that or did they reach out to you? They did that for me without even having to ask, so I assume they did the same?

Hi Kevin, If you don't change anything, the model will likely work pretty well indefinitely, but some things will hinder the model's accuracy. First, to properly account for refraction, you should

Today I installed the Renishaw AEs on my AP1100GTO. I am a newbie, what do I need to do to initialize them and turn them on? Shailesh

Good tip Brian. I will do a 100 or so point model in the mean-time, before I can do the 'whole hog'

It sounds like a good idea... but you will get a handful of fails around the bright moon if you are going to go through the effort of building a large model to keep for a while, my experience

I think I will make good use of the full-ish moon to make a much bigger model.

FYI we have a 400 point model and have been using it for months <khursh@...> wrote: -- Brian Brian Valente portfolio brianvalentephotography.com

Thanks Roland. I won't be moving it.

If you don't move your mount, you can use it for a long time. Rolando

I ran my first successful model tonight of 30 points. Obviously I am going to want to try a much larger model, but I am wondering how long can I use it. I was thinking about a hundred or so. If I go

Hi Rolando, Does the Quad TCC require the same back distance to focal plane in AP 155 f/7 as in 130 f/6.3 GTX/GT. Thanks, JT

Trying the Dec cable on the RA motor will cause a motor stall because the RA cable is trying to run the motor at sidereal, but cannot because it is not plugged in. If you want to try the Dec on RA,

Thanks Jeff and Roland for the info. Roland, looks like I'll have to call George on Monday. I performed your test of placing the RA cable to the Dec motor - at first it looked like it was the

Yep, T-ripper is good to process 1000 mosaic tiles done with 16803. -jg

End-game for me is a 155/7, so this is good to know! That's why the silicon gods granted us ThreadRipper! TRs help immensely even with the 60mp images of the IMX455 cameras. I'm waiting